SMEA student Adriana Apintiloaiei has been selected as a member of the 2024 Bonderman Fellow cohort. The Bonderman Fellowship was created by UW alumnus, David Bonderman, in 1995. This fellowship provides graduate and professional students with the opportunity to independently travel abroad to encourage discovery and learn to understand the world in new ways. The 2024 cohort cover a wide variety of interests including:

• Interconnectedness
• Reciprocal relationships with land
• Disability rights
• Biracial identities
• Notions of the Absurd across the world
• The connection between people and water
• Queer communities around the world

Adriana Apintiloaiei
Master of Marine Affairs
Hometown: Leesburg, VA
Adriana has always been curious about the ways a person’s environment and sense of place shape them and is particularly passionate about the connection between people and water. She hopes to use her Bonderman experience to explore the ways in which coastal communities interact with the ocean to better understand the cultural impacts that water has in different regions. Adriana will be spending time in both South America and Southeast Asia and hopes to get a sense of how people in these regions think about sustainability and conservation along the coast.

Congratulations, Adriana!