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About Carnegie Corporation
Heather McKay
Program Associate
Carnegie Scholars Program
Heather
McKay is a program associate in the Carnegie Scholars Program, which
supports individual scholars working on issues of concern to the
Corporation, and special assistant to the president for special
projects. The Scholars Program focuses on projects related to Islam
and Muslim societies and communities both in the U.S. and abroad.
In addition, she works on special opportunities grantmaking in cooperation
with the Corporation’s Project on Islam.
McKay
is currently a Fellow of the U.S.-Japan Leadership Program, which
is designed to forge a network of communication and understanding
among the next generation of leaders in each country. Her background
includes designing an English-language program for K-12 children
in rural Taiwan, working on environmental education and nonprofit
advocacy in the Czech Republic, and serving as a press officer for
the United Nations Association of the USA in New York. She previously
served as an associate of the Arnold P. Gold Foundation for Humanism
in Medicine.
McKay
earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University with
a concentration in Russian and European History. She also studied
linguistics and political history at the University of Edinburgh
in Scotland. Currently, she is undertaking graduate studies in epidemiology
at the John P. Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.
As part of this program, she participates in the school’s
Global Health Forum, Columbia University Partnership for International
Development, and is involved with a New York City Department of
Health and Mental Hygiene partnership assisting in outbreak investigations.
Her volunteer activities include work with the International Voluntary
Service in Latvia and serving as a volunteer in the emergency department
at St. Vincent’s Hospital, New York.
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