Alexandra Valery Draggeim

ALEXANDRA VALERY DRAGGEIM 2080 Gillen Lane Falls Church, Virginia 22043 (703) 241-1725 • [email protected]

- Education –

Ohio State University 2010-present Chinese Flagship Program (M.A. candidate in East Asian Languages and Literatures with a concentration in Advanced Chinese Language & Culture) Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies 2009-2010 At Tsinghua University in Beijing, China (NSEP Boren Scholar) University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 2007-2010 Echols Scholar, Echols interdisciplinary major (B.A.), French minor Cumulative University GPA of 4.0 out of 4.0 McLean High School, McLean, Virginia 2003-2007 Marshall High School Academy (academic center at nearby high school offering Chinese courses) 2004-2007 Bi-lingual native in Russian and English; fluent in French and German; and studying Mandarin Chinese - Employment –

Internship at the Bureau of International Information Programs (IIP) at the U.S. Department of State summer 2010 - Wrote and published articles on American-Russian Cooperation on the America.gov website - Maintained State Department’s Russian-Language Facebook Page - Wrote entries in Chinese for the State Department’s Chinese blog as a guest blogger Work at the American-Russian Cultural Cooperation Foundation (ARCCF), Washington, D.C 2007-2009 - Executive Assistant to Chairman James W. Symington - Helped organize a gala at the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C. on June 5, 2009 celebrating the birthdays of American poet Walt Whitman and Russian poet Alexander Pushkin (2009) - Worked on organizing the exhibition The Tsar and the President: Alexander II and Abraham Lincoln (2008-2009) - Helped organize Salute to U.S.-Russia Cultural Diplomacy, a gala at the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C. on November 19, 2008 Translation work (Russian/English) 2008-Present - Translated and narrated subtitles for the film Kino-Eye which was shown as part of the silent Soviet film festival in the Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C. - Translated the article “Alexander II, Tsar-Liberator,” which was published in the catalogue of the exhibition The Tsar and the President Interpreting work (Russian/English and English/Russian) 2008-2009 - Interpreted for Deputy Directors of Russian museums at the opening of the exhibition The Tsar and the President in Oshkosh, Wisconsin - Interpreted for Russian delegation consisting of Elena Sutormina and Anatoly Salutsky during a visit to the Office of the D.C. Mayor at a meeting with District Secretary Stephanie Scott and at a press conference at the Russian Embassy related to the construction of the Walt Whitman statue in Moscow - Awards and Honors –

- NSEP Flagship Fellow (Chinese) 2010-2011 - Recipient of Taiwan Familiarization Program scholarship for one-week trip to Taiwan 2010 - NSEP Boren Scholar (China) 2009-2010 - Recipient of a Book Prize from the UVA German Department 2008 - Recipient of $1,000 Prize in the MAAS French Essay Contest at UVA for essay on Jacques Derrida 2008 and deconstructionism, written in French - Winner of the UVA French House Poetry-Reading Contest 2008 - McLean High School Valedictorian and Graduation Speaker 2007 - McLean High School Nancy Lancaster Lindjord Award for outstanding study of foreign language 2007 - McLean High School English Department Student of the Year Award 2007 - Marshall Academy Chinese Student of the Year Award 2007 - United States Marine Corps Award for Academic Excellence 2007 - National AP Scholar (received scores of 5 on 8 AP exams) 2007 - National Honor Society member 2006-2007 - National Merit Scholarship Program Finalist 2007 - McLean High School Rachel Carson Book Award from Chatham College for excellence in English 2006 - Won the competition to attend and attended the Governor’s School for Humanities at the 2006 University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia - McLean High School Norman Fowler World Studies Award 2003