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Tawreak Gamble-Eddington

Election Year: 2022

Election Constituency: United States of America

Scholar Status: Scholar in Residence

Rhodes Identifier: New York & Hertford 2022

Tawreak Gamble-Eddington

Biography

Tawreak J. Gamble-Eddington, Springfield, Massachusetts, graduated in 2021 from Union College with honors in both History and Political Science. He is currently completing an MPhil in Race, Ethnicity, Conflict at Trinity College Dublin, where he is a Mitchell Scholar. Ty was a campus leader at Union, serving as President of both the Black Student Union and Union Pride and helping found a My Brother’s Keeper program. He was also named to the Presidential steering committee on Race, Power, and Privilege and awarded the university’s top prizes for service to Union, contributions to campus diversity, and accomplishments in political science. Ty has been involved in politics through work in campaigns, congress, lobbying firms, and NGOs. At Oxford, he hopes to pursue the MPhil in Politics (Comparative Government).