Mikayla Kazmierkoski, who is from Eden Prairie and is currently a student at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi, was selected as a Boren Scholar by the National Security Education Program.
Kazmierkoski plans to study Mandarin Chinese in Taipei and is entertaining the possibility of ultimately combining her majors of finance and Chinese into a career.
“I am interested in public service and hope to apply my language skills to support positive U.S.-Taiwan and U.S.-China financial relations,” she said. “Aside from public service, I am also drawn to the idea of working in banking and hope to gain valuable experience abroad interning at an overseas bank.”
Boren scholarship recipients are offered funding to study languages abroad in areas critical to United States security, including Africa, Asia, central and eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America and the Middle East…