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Princeton University Athletics
Seitz Earns Knight-Hennessy Scholarship
March 18, 2019 | Men's Soccer
He is one of 69 students from around the world to be in the second cohort of scholars that will receive full funding for graduate study at Stanford.
The program aims to develop an interdisciplinary community of future global leaders to address the world's most complex challenges through collaboration and innovation.
"We are impressed and humbled by what this new cohort of scholars has already achieved and inspired by their deeply rooted commitment to effect positive and lasting change in the world," said John L. Hennessy, the Shriram Family Director of the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program.
This year, the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program received 4,424 applications, an increase of 23 percent from 2018. The primary selection criteria used to evaluate applicants were independence of thought, purposeful leadership and a civic mindset.
Seitz is pursuing a JD at Stanford Law School. He aspires to aid in ending mass incarceration through activism and his work in the field of law. While at Princeton earning a degree in philosophy, Seitz taught philosophy, creative writing, and current events classes in a nearby prison through the Prison Electives Project, an organization he helped start. During his summers, he interned at the Texas Defender Service in Houston, which specializes in representing clients on death row; at the American Bar Association in Washington, DC, working for their Death Penalty Representation Project; and at Goldman Sachs in litigation. For the past two years, he has been a division manager at the Petey Greene Program, a nonprofit that sets up and coordinates tutoring programs in prisons.
He was selected for both the Fulbright Scholarship and the Puttkammer Fellowship in 2017, and was the recipient of the 2017 Gregory T. Pope '80 Prize for science writing.
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