Senior Meridith Frazee Receives Emily Couric Leadership Forum Scholarship

We’re very proud of Tandem Friends senior Meridith Frazee, the Tandem Friends School nominee for The Emily Couric Leadership Scholarship Award, who was recently awarded a $10,000 scholarship from The Emily Couric Leadership Forum. The ten local leadership award finalists (one senior young woman from each local high school) have been honored online and in the press and the final winners announced. All finalists received a $10,000 college scholarship and one nominee received the $50,000 top award. 

Meridith was honored for her commitment to and leadership around many topics, including environmental issues. Here’s what the Leadership Forum’s website shares about her: “Meridith Frazee is a poet with a love of language almost equal to her love of the outdoors. She’s also captain of the track team, where she was a 5-time winner of All-Conference track honors. As student body president, she loved serving with Tandem’s first all-female team of student officers. Meridith’s devotion to nature has made her a committed environmentalist, whose passion led to a revival of the school’s defunct Earth Club. In senior year, she helped lobby state lawmakers about conservation measures. Knocking on doors in support of a congressional candidate strengthened Meridith’s interest in politics and in the power of listening and making connections in order to solve problems. As to what lies ahead, she writes, “I will strive to be thoughtful and humble, cultivate my curiosity, and practice courage in whatever field I enter.” Here is a link to a series of videos honoring Meridith and the other finalists and shared by The Emily Couric Leadership Forum (Meridith's is at the bottom right of the webpage). Congratulations, Meridith!

Meridith is deciding between college choices of Sewanee, Kenyon and the University of Virginia for the fall.