Bonderman Travel Fellowship

Nicholas Rogen

Photo of Nick Rogen

Social Work

Graduate

2014 Fellows

Hometown: Sumner, WA

Travel Locations: Cambodia, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Morocco, Iceland

Boxed thinking leads to boxed dreams, and the Bonderman Fellowship will give Rogen the chance to live outside my four-walled life. He wants to push himself, take risks, and never stop seeking the unknown. He wants to go to places he has only dreamed about—and to places that don’t have a Starbucks on every corner. He chose these Asian, African and Nordic countries as his destinations because all of them elicit fear and giddy excitement—the perfect mixture for a life-changing adventure. As Ulysses said, “to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” Planned destinations: Cambodia, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Morocco and Iceland