Pamela Hernandez Earns Pickering Fellowship to Promote Positive Change in the World
January 12, 2023
Pamela Hernandez has blazed a trail as a first-generation college graduate seeking to enter the Foreign Service.
Growing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants who came to the United States with very little and made her aware of hardships in the world, Pamela Hernandez always knew she wanted to help other people.
As a student at Rutgers, her awareness of the challenges women faced around the world grew, honing her interest in making a difference.
“My parents inspired me to study politics and talked about the struggles they faced growing up impoverished in Mexico,” said Hernandez. “The news was always on and we were always discussing what was happening. It has been that way since I was a kid when it was part of our everyday conversations. So, deciding what I thought was important and what I could do to help was not hard.”