Making history
Natalie Beckford ’24—the first Payne Fellow in Lafayette’s history and the only student from a Pennsylvania undergraduate institution this year—shares her journey to fulfilling her educational and personal legacy. The highly competitive and prestigious USAID Donald M. Payne International Development Fellowship is awarded annually to only 30 graduating college seniors nationwide who are interested in pursuing careers in the Foreign Service of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).