Charlotta Chung graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude in May 2008 from St. Lawrence University with a degree in Sociology. While at St. Lawrence she worked as a Community Mentor in the Center for Civic Engagement and Leadership, helping to supervise volunteer students and those involved in Community-Based Learning Classes. Ms. Chung was also an intern at the St. Lawrence County Department of Social Services, where she served as a mentor to at-risk teenage girls. In addition, she worked with St. Lawrence University’s AWARE and Adovocates program, working to combat sexual violence and serving as an advocate for survivors.
Charlotta is interested in Community-Based learning and rural and community sociology. Ms. Chung loves independent research projects and has studied abroad in Denmark and China.
She has also intered in Sri Lanka with Emerge Global, a non-profit founded and directed by another 2007 Truman Scholar.
Ms. Chung spent the summer of 2008 in DC with the Truman Scholar class of 2007, where she interned at the Center for Law and Social Policy.
Charlotta is currently working as a program assistant at the Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies at City College of New York, where she works with students in community development and building campus-community partnerships.
After the 2008-2009 academic year, Charlotta will matriculate at the University of Michigan Law School.
