Kathleen Song ’23 MPA ’27 hails from Orange County, California and will graduate from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University. Song, the 2023 Terrence A. Elkes Graduate Scholar in the Nation’s Service, was elected to the Tau Beta Pi Honor Society and selected as a Tau Beta Pi National Scholar as well as a recipient for the Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence in 2019. During her undergraduate career, Kathleen has worked as a research assistant for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change where she reviewed and fact-checked the manuscript of the “Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate” before it was published in 2019. In summer 2022, she interned at the US Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division as a legal research intern in the Environmental Enforcement Section. Kathleen has also volunteered with the Citizens’ Climate Lobby where she organized for bipartisan carbon pricing legislation and conducted research with Princeton University’s Urban Nexus Lab, the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, and UCLA’s Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, through which she co-authored a paper on modeling air pollution in the Western US. On campus, Kathleen is heavily involved in interfaith dialogue initiatives, including the Religious Life Council, the Veritas Forum, and the Rose Castle Society. She is a proud member of the Episcopal Church at Princeton.