Barbados native, worldwide volunteer

COLCHESTER, Vt. (St. Michael's College) - Jamila Headley, a Saint Michael's College senior political science major and global studies minor, now studying abroad in Jordan, has been named a 2006 Rhodes Scholar, following a day-long interview session in her home country of Barbados yesterday.

Headley told the Barbados Advocate, "I think the biggest preparation was with all my professors and my mentors in my life coming around me and saying, you know, just be yourself, and if that can't win you the scholarship, then it's not for you." In three years at St. Michael's, Headley, who has earned a perfect 4.0 grade point average, has traveled to some of the most inhospitable places on the globe, to do volunteer work. These have included Tanzania, Oman, post-tsunami Sri Lanka and post-Katrina New Orleans. At the same time, she has been a player in one of the major health crises and health policy issues in the world today. Headley is on the steering committee for the HIV/AIDS advocacy Health Global Access Project and the Black AIDS Institute. She has traveled twice with her St. Michael's political science professor Patricia Siplon to do AIDS education work in Tanzania, and plans to return there in May of 2007 following her graduation from St. Michael's College. Beginning her Rhodes Scholarship in October of 2007, Headley plans to pursue two master's programs, the first in Global Health Policy and the second in International Development.

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