South Dakota Rhodes Scholar To Help Refugees
Perry GrotenKeloland TV
A South Dakota woman is thankful for the academic honor she achieved this past week.
Rachel Mullin, a 2010 graduate of O'Gorman High School and a 2014 graduate of the College of St. Benedict in Minnesota, is one of just 32 Americans named a Rhodes Scholar who will attend prestigious Oxford University in England. Mullin hopes to use her scholarship as a vehicle to help refugees around the world.
Thanksgiving is a time to celebrate home and family. But Mullin's mind is never far from the people she's met far from home.
"I have a family and a warm house and food available, and knowing that others don't. There's a reason to work for their safety and security," Mullin said.
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