Theresa Puhr

Theresa Puhr graduated from the Master of Global Affairs program in 2020. Before coming to the Keough School of Global Affairs, she served in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps at Women’s Resource Center in Pennsylvania, providing services to survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. She also spent a year in the Maryknoll China Teachers Program, where she taught English at Jilin Medical University and worked with local grassroots organizations serving rural communities. Theresa holds a BA from Notre Dame in political science and Chinese. As a master of global affairs student, Theresa was the recipient of a Donald & Marilyn Keough Fellowship. In 2020, she was selected as a finalist in the US Presidential Management Fellowship program.