Home  About  Chapters  Policy  Publications  Join  Jobs  Donate  Blog  GW Roosevelt chapter leadership at the launch event, "Inside the Beltway, Outside Politics" News from the National Office Post-Election Center TI Launched Roosevelt LiveBlogs the Presidential Debate On Campus Midwest Regional Fall Policy Workshop Blum speaks at Vermont Campus Compact conference Coverage of the Johns Hopkins Chapter Launch > More "The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment." — Franklin Roosevelt    Soo-Rae Hong School: Stanford University Member of: Center on the Environment and Energy The Soo-Rae Hong is currently a sophomore at Stanford University studying International Relations and Biology and a minor in Middle Eastern studies (she also hopes to graduate in 4 years). She hails from Chicago (-land area), a graduate from Adlai E. Stevenson High School. She has been tackling environmental problems since the third grade, when she went on a campaign to inform eight-year-olds about the virtues of recycling and rainforests. Since then, she has been involved with other environmental work, including campaigning with Illinois PIRG and Greenpeace offices, and working in forest preserves. Having traveled ardently throughout Kenyan villages and much of Asia, including China, Taiwan, Thailand, Cambodia, India, she has been exposed to varied environmental situations in different geographical and economic situations, as well as how various cultures reacted with their own environments. Currently, her interest lies in the impacts of globalization, trade agreements and industrialization on resource maintenance, (of oil and coal in particular) and the need for developing improved energy innovations. She intends to spend her life working in conflict resolution through development and policymaking, potentially with a focus on the Middle East.   The Roosevelt Institution is a nonpartisan, nonprofit national think tank devoted to bringing students' policy ideas to the policy process. The opinions expressed on this site are exclusively those of its members. DC Headquarters: Roosevelt Institution / 2100 M St NW Suite 610 / Washington, DC 20037 || (202) 833-1359