Allison Nichols: Gervase Programs: Learning to Lead

Allison Nichols graduated with honors from Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois, in 2006. She is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences, double-majoring in French and Government. Her other academic interests include Arabic and international development studies. Through her involvement with the Carroll Fellows Initiative, Allison spent a year as a research assistant at the Kluge Center in the Library of Congress. She plays viola and serves as President of the Georgetown University Symphony Orchestra.

During the Spring 2009 semester, Allison studied abroad at the prestigious Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris for five months, followed by a four-week summer program in Ifrane, Morocco sponsored by the Georgetown Department of Government. Back on the Hilltop, she is currently beginning work on her senior honors thesis, studying the political and social implications of the work North African francophone female writers.

After graduation, Allison plans to attend law school, and she hopes to one day work for an international humanitarian or development agency.