Rosie Ith

Attending

Academic Major

Economics

​Class of 2022

Sopharoth “Rosie” Ith is a rising junior at the University of Portland, majoring in economics, with double minors in political science and global business. Rosie was the first SHE-CAN scholar at UP, paving the way for her little sisters. This summer, Rosie is interning at Gender and Development Cambodia in Phnom Penh.

On campus, Rosie is an Admissions Assistant at the International Student Services on campus. She is a participant in Habitat for Humanity, Model UN, the Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society, and is a First Generation Ambassador. She spent the fall semester of 2019 studying abroad in London. 
 
During the fall of 2019, Rosie organized and led a fall break “rural immersion” trip in Washington’s Yakima Valley. There, students got to learn about the issues facing immigrants in the region, and volunteered at a food bank and a local non-profit.
 
Before she joined SHE-CAN and came to the U.S, Rosie was a speaker coordinator in an international public speaking platform. In her college essay to UP, Rosie described how she struggled to speak in front of the audience, but only two years later became a national champion in a speaking competition where she represented all of Cambodia in Japan. Rosie is determined to use her voice to increase the number of women in the workforce in order to lift Cambodia from poverty. 

Watch her leadership speech here: https://vimeo.com/390650595

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