Kayla Matteucci ’14 has been named a 2021 Marshall Scholar. She will study for master’s degrees in Politics and International Studies at Cambridge in 2021 and Climate Change: Environment, Science and Policy at King’s College London in 2022. She also will join Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk as a Visiting Research Fellow in the coming months, working on risks posed by climate change and nuclear war.

In 2019 Matteucci was one of two people granted the Fulbright UK Open Award, with which she pursued research in nuclear policy with the government of the United Kingdom and King’s College in London.

Marshall Scholarships select up to 50 young Americans of high ability each year to study for a graduate degree in the United Kingdom. Matteucci graduated with bachelor’s degrees in International Relations and Spanish from Fordham University in 2018.