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Carlos Ruiz, BSPA '10

Carlos is the winner of an Edward T. Rogowsky Internship for the summer of 2009. The Rogowsky Internship is a highly competitive and intensive program that offers CUNY students the opportunity to work in the offices of U.S. Representatives and Senators, congressional committees, federal agencies, and at a variety of national and international non-governmental organizations. CUNY Washington, D.C. Internship students work full-time at their placements and are provided with a $2000 award to offset their living costs. CUNY also covers housing costs. Carlos worked with Congressman Eliot Engel, mostly dealing with the Foreign Affairs Committee and the subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, which Engel chairs.

Carlos has also won two scholarships at Baruch, the Irwin Fromme and Tinker Foundation scholarships, each worth $1,000. The Irwin Fromme Scholarship is given to matriculated students with upper class standing who have achieved academic distinction and declared a major or concentration in the study of foreign trade, international marketing or international finance. Mr. Fromme graduated from Baruch in 1954. He was a trader at Centrotrade which is an international trading company that deals in minerals, lead and other commodities. The Tinker Foundation scholarship is merit-based.

Uchenwa Njoku, BSPA '10

Uchenwa has created a non-profit called 'Flaunt Africa.' Flaunt Africa is a youth run non-profit organization that raises awareness of a Positive Africa, portraying the developing continent from a more likable perspective while raising funds to improve her impoverished communities. Flaunt Africa participated in the Sixth Annual Youth Assembly at the United Nation's parish, Church of the Holy Family in August, 2009. Flaunt Africa was highlighted in the September 14th, 2009 'Features' section of The Ticker, Baruch College's undergraduate student newspaper. In that article, Uchenwa was quoted as saying that “[Flaunt Africa is] trying to showcase Africa from the platform that people have never seen before,” said founder Uchenwa Njoku. “So instead of seeing Africa as full of HIV and AIDS or the Africa of poverty, this is the Africa of development.”