Christina Pao

B.A./M.A. Yale University 2020 | Truman 2019 | Rhodes 2020

News & Publications

  • Interview (Jan. 15th, 2020) by the Council of East Asian Studies at Yale University.
  • Publication (Dec. 16th, 2019) by the United Nations ESCAP:
    • Social Development Policy Brief: Women’s Political Participation and Leadership by Christina Pao, Ed. by Maria Ann Mathew
  • Publication (Nov. 27th, 2019) by the United Nations ESCAP:
    • Pathways to Influence: Promoting the Role of Women’s Transformative Leadership to Achieve the SDGs in Asia and the Pacific (Served as one of four in the drafting team)
  • Announcement (Nov. 25th, 2019) by Yale News regarding the election to the Rhodes Scholarship. A current bio is available on the Rhodes Trust website.
  • Announcement (Apr. 30th, 2019) by the Council of Heads of Colleges regarding receipt of the John C. Schroeder Award.
  • Announcement (Apr. 12th, 2019) by Yale News regarding receipt of the Truman Scholarship. A similar announcement (Apr. 10th, 2019) created by the Truman Foundation proper.
  • Posting (Sept. 4th, 2018) by Social Science Works (Berlin) of past research project:
    • “SUPER VOLUNTEERISM”: A GRASS-ROOTS SOLUTION TO GLOBAL PREJUDICE by Yuki Hayasaka (Yale University ’20), Michael Kearney (Yale University ’20), Adam Michalowski (Yale University ’19), and Christina Pao (Yale University ’20)
      • Synopsis: “We conducted a cross-national study of volunteers at refugee service organizations in Japan and Germany in order to better understand how particularly influential volunteers, whom we call “Super Volunteers,” influence the attitudes of their peers. We identified and labeled two types of Super Volunteers, “Facilitators” and “Proxies.” Each type can reduce prejudices toward refugees in those around them, but the types differ in terms of influence mechanism and type of volunteer work – two factors which are correlated. Our research demonstrates how the theoretical principles of Contact Theory function in practice, and our findings could expand Contact Theory and illuminate previously unstudied ways of engendering empathy.”
  • Granted title (Aug. 18th, 2018) as a Social Science Works Fellow.
  • Announcement by Dwight Hall (Summer 2017) at Yale regarding time as a Summer Fellow with the International Rescue Committee.
  • Annual newsletters from the National Latin Examination about continued scholarship support.