Olivia Hompe, a 2013 graduate of New Canaan High School, has been named by Princeton University as one of this year’s four winners in the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative (SINSI). Hompe has received a four-year fellowship to study for a masters degree in public affairs (MPA) at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
This highly competitive scholarship provides exceptional students both the academic training and the practical work experience in federal service needed to succeed in public policy careers. In addition to the two-year course of study, the program provides for two years of SINSI-supported employment with an executive branch department or agency usually placed between the first and second year of the MPA program.
Hompe, currently a senior at Princeton, is an undergraduate concentrator in the Woodrow Wilson School and a certificate candidate in Near Eastern Studies. She is the Terrence A. Elkes Scholar. Proficient in Arabic, she focuses on security studies in the Middle East and North Africa.
In the summer of 2016, Hompe worked in the intelligence community in Washington, D.C., embedded in a unit that developed both her language and analytical abilities related to the intersection of intelligence and national security. In the prior summer, Hompe interned at Running Start, a nonpartisan nonprofit in Washington, D.C. dedicated to increasing the number of young women involved in politics. She helped coordinate the activities of the nonprofit and served as a mentor to high school girls interested in political careers.
An All-American in lacrosse, Hompe serves as a two-time captain of the Princeton women’s team, as well as the president of the Varsity Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. She also is a member of the Princeton Women’s Mentorship Program and Princeton Students for Gender Equality and volunteers as an Arabic peer tutor.
New Canaan resident Olivia Hompe has been recognized and received a scholarship.
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