Naila Segule awarded prestigious Payne fellowship award
Naila Segule, 2020 Biomedical Engineering and Interdisciplinary Studies in Global Health Communication and Development, recently returned from a full-day interview in Washington, D.C., at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Office for the final leg of her application to the Payne International Development Fellowship.
“I really wanted this fellowship! Being at the USAID Office, meeting influential people and seeing how much I could learn really cemented how important this opportunity could be for me,” she said. Her wish came true; the same week as her interview she received word that she was chosen as a 2020 Payne Fellow.
The Payne Fellowship Award is extremely competitive. Out of 526 national applicants, only nine received the highly coveted award this year. The Payne Fellowship Program provides awardees up to $48,000 annually for a two-year master’s degree plus an annual $16,000 stipend for housing, transportation, and related expenses. Fellows who complete the Payne Program and USAID Foreign Service entry requirements will receive appointments as Foreign Service Officers with the U.S. Agency for International Development.
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