Coronado High School graduate Megan Braun, a law student at Yale University, is one of 85 doctoral students nationwide to receive the merit-based $15,000 Scholar Award from the P.E.O. Sisterhood.
She plans a career in international law with a focus on the laws of war. She says, “The fields of war must be tempered by laws, not because they guarantee justicethey often don’tbut because they are the source of war’s redemption.”
Currently in her second year of law school, she is executive editor of articles and essays for the Yale Law Journal and articles editor for the Yale Journal of International Law. Last summer she was an intern in the Department of Justice National Security Division. This summer, she will spend six weeks at Sullivan & Cromwell in Washington, D.C., and at the State Department Legal Adviser’s Office.
Braun, the daughter of Jane Braun of Coronado and Robert Braun of San Diego, is a 2006 graduate of Coronado High School and 2010 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of UC Irvine where she was president of the student body for two years and Outstanding Undergraduate Student of the Year. A Rhodes Scholar, she received a masters in international relations at Oxford University in 2013.
Coronado Chapter XR nominated Braun for the P.E.O. Scholar Award. The honor, established in 1991, provides merit-based awards for women of the United States and Canada who are pursuing a doctoral-level degree at an accredited college or university. This year there were 630 nominations for the award.
The P.E.O. Sisterhood, founded January 21, 1869, at Iowa Wesleyan College, Mount Pleasant, IA, is a philanthropic educational organization interested in bringing increased opportunities for higher education to women. There are approximately 6,000 local chapters in the United States and Canada with nearly a quarter of a million active members.
