Please endeavor to vote for Clinton School student Shamim Okolloh, who is a nominee in online voting for the Student in Service Awards, a national search for inspirational college students who are positively impacting social and environmental challenges facing communities. Click here to vote.
If chosen, Okolloh will receive a $5,000 scholarship for both her graduate education and for her work with Kaimosi Girls High School in Kenya. A native of Nairobi, Kenya, Okolloh is part of a Clinton School team that is working with the Arkansas Children’s Hospital Research Institute to develop a plan for sustaining gardens in schools launched in a national garden research study.
Okolloh completed her undergraduate studies at Spelman College with a degree in environmental science. Before coming to the Clinton School, she researched air pollution for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and served as an intern for the UN Environmental Program Ministerial Conference on the Environment.