The Office of International Education (OIE) is pleased to announce the OIE Global Citizen Awards to honor and recognize
outstanding contributions to international understanding by members of the CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ community.
Congratuations to Azuraye Wycoff, for being awarded the OIE Global Citizen Award as the study abroad student of the year. Azuraye has an outstanding record of cross-cultural achievement and international relations work as an undergraduate student studying for a Bachelor’s degree in International Affairs. For the academic year 2013-2014, she studied abroad in Nanjing, China where she studied Mandarin intensively, and worked as a translator and editor of a dual-language Chinese magazine, MAP.
In ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ, Azuraye interned and is now a board member of the United Nations Association of ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ County (UNA-BC), where she collaborates with local grassroots movements to educate, inspire and mobilize her community to support human rights. In spring 2013, she collaborated with Project Nur and CU Amnesty International to organize a Syrian Benefit Night. She also organized UNA-BC’s first booth at the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ-Creek festival to promote the UN’s effort to supply developing nations with clean drinking water.
Wycoff is a leadership fellow of Project Pengyou, a Harvard-based Sino-US relations grassroots organization, and is involved in starting a ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ campus chapter of the project. For summer 2015, Wycoff intends to return to China to start a program teaching English to high school students in Nanjing, eventually tailoring the curriculum to teaching business professionals, business and conversational English. Azuraye continually demonstrates her global citizenship through her dedication to cultural awareness, intercultural understanding and human rights.