Rhodes Scholar Hera Jay Brown

2020

Rhodes Scholar Hera Jay Brown

2020

Rhodes Scholar Hera Jay Brown

Hera Jay Brown (‘18) became UT’s ninth Rhodes Scholar in 2019 after she studied sociocultural anthropology and migration studies in three honors programs: Haslam Scholars, Baker Scholars, and College Scholars. Selected while a Fulbright-Schuman Research Fellow, Brown had previously worked as an LGBT policy intern at the Biden Foundation and as a presidential associate at the American University in Cairo. According to the Rhodes Trust, Brown is the first transgender woman to be elected to a Rhodes Scholarship. Brown is studying at the University of Oxford for a master’s degree in development studies and intends to complete a doctorate In international development.