Xuan-Trang Ho

A 2006 Rhodes Scholar, 2005 Truman Scholar, and one of USA Today's 20 First Team members, Xuan-Trang Ho is the youngest of 8 children and emigrated to Nebraska in 1994 with her parents and 4 older siblings as political refugees from Vietnam. Trang went from having no command of English to graduating as the valedictorian of her high school of 680 students. A graduate of Nebraska Wesleyan University in May of 2006, she majored in Political Science and Spanish and had a minor in International Affairs. She was an active member of the President's Council on Cultural Diversity, Global Service Learning, Student Affairs Senate, and MOSAIC. She planned and participated in service learning trips to Nicaragua, El Salvador, Vietnam, North Carolina, Louisiana and Washington, D.C. When residing in Nebraska, Trang works as a certified Vietnamese medical and legal interpreter and volunteers as a Spanish legal interpreter for a pro bono immigration law clinic. Trang also has honed her Spanish skills and interests in Latin American politics by currently interning at the US Department of State in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere, Office of Central American Affairs, studying abroad in Argentina in 2004 and interning at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, a Latin American think-tank, in Washington, D.C. in 2005.  Additionally, she served as a co-instructor in a liberal arts seminar entitled "Middle East and Islam" in the fall of 2005 at her university.  As a Rhodes Scholar, she is presently reading for two MScs in Latin American Studies and Global Governance & Diplomacy at St. Antony's College of Oxford University. She aspires to work in the field of U.S. foreign policy and Latin American politics after earning her Ph.D. in political science.

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