PSA Welcomes New Scoville Peace Fellow, Sara Monteabaro

For Immediate Release: April 1, 2015
PSA Welcomes New Scoville Peace Fellow, Sara Monteabaro
Washington, D.C. – Partnership for a Secure America (PSA) is pleased to announce the addition
of Sara Monteabaro as a Spring 2015 Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellow. She will provide
research and programmatic support to PSA’s new bipartisan policy initiatives, original Advisory
Board content, and a wide range of congressional staff programming.
Ms. Monteabaro recently received a master’s degree in global affairs from New York University,
where she focused her studies on the nexus between international development, peacebuilding,
and gender equality. While at NYU, she traveled to the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, where she
conducted research on youth unemployment, and to Yangon, Myanmar, where she researched
female entrepreneurship for her master’s thesis. Prior to her graduate studies, Sara was a
program coordinator for a cross-cultural exchange program in Beijing, China. She has interned at
the Clinton Global Initiative and Council on Foreign Relations. She holds a B.A. from American
University and speaks Mandarin.
The Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship was established in 1987 to provide recent university
and grad school graduates with opportunities to explore key peace and security issues from a
Washington perspective. Fellows are chosen twice a year by the fellowship’s Board of Directors
from a highly competitive field of applicants. During their fellowships, Scoville Peace Fellows
work with one of 25 host organizations in the D.C. community on a wide range of issues,
including, but not limited to, arms control, conflict resolution, human rights, civil society
programs, and environmental security. Fellows have gone on to complete their graduate studies
and work on a variety of issues across the spectrum of peace and security in public-interest
organizations, the federal government, academia, and the media.
The fellowship was named after Dr. Herbert (Pete) Scoville, Jr., who was a nuclear arms control
activist both in government and private life and who encouraged young people to become
involved in arms control and related topics. More information on the Scoville Peace Fellowship
can be found at www.scoville.org.
Ms. Monteabaro is PSA’s second Scoville Peace Fellow.
PSA is a nonprofit founded by former U.S. Representative Lee Hamilton (D-IN) and the late U.S.
Senator Warren Rudman (R-NH) to advance bipartisanship on today’s critical national security
and foreign policy challenges. Leveraging the leadership of its distinguished Advisory Board,
PSA has unique credibility and access to forge common ground and fashion thoughtful, factbased policy that promotes America’s national interests. More information on PSA can be found
at www.psaonline.org.
CONTACT: Nathan Sermonis (202-293-8580), or sermonis@psaonline.org.