Fall 2021 Graduation Undergraduate Valedictory Speaker Announced

Nicolle Anne Medak (Bachelor of Arts in International Studies ‘21) will represent the undergraduates of the Fall Class of 2021 as the valedictory speaker. She will deliver her address at the Saturday, December 11 graduation ceremony. 

Medak became a delegate of the National Model United Nations team in her first year at Hawaiʻi Pacific University and eventually became the Alumni Relations Officer for the United Nations Club. Over the years, Medak became more involved on campus, working for Dr. Yong Jae Kim on comparative politics as his research assistant and being the Chief of Staff for the Student Government Association. While earning her bachelor’s degree, she earned membership into various honor societies for political science and history, was published in HPU’s Fresh Perspectives Journal, and won the 2021 award for the Best Undergraduate Capstone Project for the International Studies and Political Science Department. Medak also held internships with the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies and the Department of Homeland Security’s Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center. After graduation, Medak plans to continue at Hawaiʻi Pacific University to obtain her master’s degree in Diplomacy and Military Studies.