Fern Holland

In July 2003, Fern was hired by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to investigate human rights abuses under Saddam Hussein's regime.

Holland, American press officer and former Marine Corps lieutenant colonel Robert J. Zangas, and their Iraqi translator Salwa Ourmashi were shot in their car on a road near Karbala on March 9, 2004.

American investigators are trying to determine whether that money was stolen as part of a web of bribery, kickbacks, theft and conspiracy that they have laid out in a series of indictments and court papers.

This first-of-its-kind program seeks to diversify the foreign policy community and is awarded to three Pell Grant eligible entry-level professionals annually.

Fellows receive an in-depth look into a career of public service and advise Representative Moulton and his foreign policy staff on key issues.