Denise Sievert Geronimo ’24 has been awarded a Fulbright Research Award in the Philippines for her project, Passports to Pixels: Unraveling the Transformative Role of ICT in Workforce Migration. Geronimo will spend nine months in the Philippines, conducting research to discover how Information and Communications Technology developments impacts the Filipino labor diasporas.
“As a child of two Filipino immigrants, I am honored to have the opportunity to conduct my own research in the Philippines through the Fulbright program,” says Geronimo, an International Political Economy major and Journalism minor. “I look forward to immersing myself in my culture and collaborating with the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) to explore how Information and Communications Technology development can support the Philippine labor force and US-Philippines relations.”
Geronimo is especially grateful to her mentors at CC, who she says played instrumental roles throughout her time on campus and are a huge part of her academic success: Corey Hutchins, Journalism Instructor and Co-Director of the Journalism Institute at CC, and Dr. John Gould, Professor of Political Science.
“Additionally, I would like to give a special thanks to Roy Jo Sartin and Gretchen Wardell for their constant support and for calming me down throughout the Fulbright process,” Geronimo says.
Geronimo was also named a 2024 Rangel Graduate Fellow. Through this fellowship, she will attend two years of fully-funded graduate school and receive mentorship and professional development opportunities.
Both the Fulbright and the Rangel Fellowships are supervised by the U.S. Department of State, and the Fulbright is the only exception the Rangel Fellowship allows for deferrals. Geronimo will spend this summer interning with State Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee as part of her Rangel Fellowship internship requirement. She will conduct her Fulbright project in the Philippines from August through May 2025, and then rejoin the Rangel Fellowship. After finishing graduate school at Tufts University, Geronimo will serve five years in the foreign service. She will then become a U.S. Department of State Foreign Service Officer upon successfully completing the Rangel Graduate Fellowship.
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