11/28/2018 Tungol Law America Now, Headline News, Immigration "Meet Jin Park, The First DACA Recipient Awarded A Rhodes Scholarship"

Scott Simon of NPR recently reported on Harvard University student Jin Park, who has become the first recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals — DACA — to earn a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship.

Park, 22, arrived in New York City with his parents from South Korea when he was 7 years old and grew up in Queens, N.Y. Park is currently a senior at Harvard working toward a degree in molecular and cellular biology with a minor in ethnicity, migration and rights. Thanks to the Rhodes Scholarship, Park will continue his studies at the University of Oxford in Oxford, England next year.

“I’ve proposed two master’s degrees for my studies at Oxford: one in migration studies, the other in global health science and epidemiology,” Park says. “I want to do those two degrees and come back and hopefully work in the context of public health department … [to] implement evidence-based policies to improve and work on immigrant health.”

NPR’s Scott Simon spoke with Park about what the scholarship means to him and to other DACA recipients.

For more on Jin Park’s full interview with NPR, click here.

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