Awards

Kate Hevner Mueller Outstanding Senior Award - 2015

About Elizabeth Nixon

Elizabeth Nixon graduated with a B.A. in International Studies at the Indiana University School of Global and International Studies, with minors in African Studies, Swahili, Political Science, Non-profit Management, and Music. A section leader and soloist for the St. Charles Catholic Church choir in Bloomington, Nixon has also performed with the IU Opera & Ballet Theater, University Chorale, and University Singers. An active advocate for local music education and performance, Nixon has experience teaching flute, piano, and voice to younger members of the local community. In 2011, Nixon co-founded Tunaweza Kimuziki, an ongoing set of music workshops at Moi University in Eldoret and Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya.

In 2013, Nixon served as a research intern at the Akiba Uhaki Foundation in Nairobi, Kenya. Nixon spent the spring of 2014 studying in Kigali, Rwanda, where she conducted research and studied the Rwandan genocide of 1994. For her senior honors thesis, she wrote a comparative study of the legal relationship between international non-governmental organizations and developing governments in East Africa. After graduation, Nixon will be pursuing graduate school and a career in foreign policy as it applies to international law and foreign intervention.