The Institute is proud to congratulate Rakim Brooks ’08 on his designation as a 2009 Rhodes Scholar. Though Institute scholars have been finalists, Rakim is the first to receive the prestigious scholarship.
Rakim, from New York City, is a senior at Brown University, where he is an Africana Studies major. While participating in the Institute’s two-summer program, he took rigorous courses in Government and Economics and interned at the Brookings Institution in 2007 and the Center for Law and Social Policy in 2008.
At Oxford, he will earn a M.Phil. in Comparative Social Policy. After earning a doctorate, Rakim hopes to become a college professor.