Hannah Blakey

Biography

A native of Detroit, Michigan, CDT Hannah Blakey is a Persian and French major at West Point with an interest in marginalized and at-risk communities. Dedicated to serving others, Hannah is a preschool and kindergarten Sunday School teacher and is one of three Cadets-in-Charge of the Elevation Initiative mentorship club which prepares minority underclass cadets for leadership roles at the Academy. Hannah has conducted several formal interviews and conversations with Persian-speaking refugees in order to better understand the cultural and economic factors that influence forced migration and refugees in Persian-speaking regions. The catalyst for which was a three – week cultural immersion experience throughout Uzbekistan in the summer of 2019, during which she lived with an Uzbek host family and studied Persian at the Samarkand Institute of Foreign Languages. At Oxford, Hannah hopes to read for an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies and an MSc in Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation. After Oxford, Hannah will continue into the Army as an Aviation officer where she intends to utilize her studies to enhance relations and inform military policy changes between the United States Army and Persian-speaking nations.