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This story is reposted from UCF Today. Read the original here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

For Stephanie Parenti, ’11, the dream of entering the U.S. Department of State\u2019s Foreign Service is just a few months shy of reality.\u00a0\"Screen<\/a><\/p>\n

Parenti, who graduated from UCF with a degree in political science and a minor in Spanish, is a graduate student in the Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University in New Jersey. In September, she will begin training to become a foreign-service officer, a public servant who promotes peace and helps Americans abroad.<\/p>\n

Her interest in public diplomacy first began after the events of September 11, 2001, when Parenti was 12.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Islamic phobia that grew in the world after 9\/11 piqued my interest,\u201d said Parenti. \u201cMy stepfather at the time was an Israeli pilot who lived in New York. We couldn\u2019t get a hold of him, and that scared my mother and me.\u201d<\/p>\n

After recognizing some Americans\u2019 shift in attitude toward foreigners, Parenti developed an interest in why Americans responded negatively to specific groups of people.<\/p>\n

As an undergraduate student at UCF, Parenti was part of the Burnett Honors College, where she completed her Honors in the Major thesis on neocolonialism as well as a separate research project about how ideas affect history. She also participated in the McNair Scholars Program for first-generation college students, which allowed her to attend a month-long research exchange trip to Croatia.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe McNair program largely emphasized the importance of research,\u201d said Parenti. \u201cMy research trip to Croatia through the program totally switched my focus.\u201d<\/p>\n

Parenti was also awarded the Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship, supports her continuing education. In her graduate career, she\u2019s specializing in Eastern European foreign policy, international security and international organizations.<\/p>\n

Recently, Parenti published an op-ed in\u00a0The Globalized World Post,<\/em>\u00a0an international-relations blog, which discussed alignment politics in the former Soviet Union. At Seton Hall, she has worked with the Seton Hall radio station\u2019s Global Current radio program as an analysis writer and has served as an associate editor for the student-run scholarly journal,\u00a0The Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the future, Parenti hopes to write for news outlets and obtain her Ph.D. so that she can inspire other students as they pursue research and international opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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