Hera Jay Brown is the first transgender woman to receive a Rhodes Scholarship in the program’s 117-year history, according to the Rhodes Trust. - NBCOUT
Courtesy of Hera Jay BrownA scholar who was inspired to study forced migration and asylum after losing her own home as a teen due to her gender identity isto receive a Rhodes Scholarship in the program’s 117-year history, according to the Rhodes Trust.
Hera Jay Brown grew up in Corryton, Tennessee, but moved to Arizona after she came out to her family at 17. She said Arizona was the “closest place” she could find housing and work. This move, she added, informed her desire to understand her experience as it relates to others who had also lost a home.
“I remember growing up with a loving, supportive family, with a stable reality and having all that kind of yanked away in an instant,” Brown, 23, told NBC News. “I know what it’s like to lose a home.
Brown took her passion for examining the intersection of forced migration, justice and labor rights to the University of Tennessee, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude in 2018. As a college student, she completed ethnographic field work in Germany, Jordan, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States, with her research primarily focusing on the experiences of Syrian refugee workers.
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