We are pleased to share this information about our Class of 1966 Dean Thaddeus Seymour international interns and our Class of 1966 Scholar:

Benjamin(Aaron) Lefkovits '27
CARI, the Argentine Council for International Relations
Benjamin Lefkovits is a History modified with Mathematics major from Greenwich, CT. His work focuses on economic development and international policy in Latin America. During his time in Buenos Aires, Benjamin worked with Pro Mujer on a project to expand renewable energy access in rural communities across Peru and Colombia, researched microloan programs for female entrepreneurs, and contributed to a report on reducing gender inequality in South America. Concurrently, he was a research fellow at CARI, the Argentine Council for International Relations, where he published a paper on US-Argentine foreign policy and researched Argentina's diplomatic relationships across South America and Eurasia. He attended speaker events with ambassadors, the Argentine Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Mining. Benjamin's interest in Latin America is grounded in years of on-the-ground work in housing and tenant advocacy. He founded the Tenant Protection Project, connecting low-income tenants facing eviction with legal services in English and Spanish, and previously interned at the Urban Justice Center in New York. He has also conducted field research in Kosovo on anti-corruption and governance.

Noah Amidon '27
The International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law
Noah is a Quantitative Social Science major from Oxford, Mississippi. At Dartmouth, he has served as Director-General of Dartmouth Undergraduate Model United Nations, Chairman of the Elections Planning and Advisory Committee, and Treasurer of College Democrats. In the fall of 2025, Noah interned at the International Institute of Justice and the Rule of Law (IIJ) in Valletta, Malta.Throughout his internship, Noah worked closely with the Monitoring & Evaluation and Communications teams, as well as executive leadership, to analyze and communicate the impact of practitioner-based counterterrorism programs around the world. He also spent considerable time researching new funding methods for the IIJ following budgetary pullbacks from the United States at the beginning of the second Trump administration. Through this work, he developed a vocabulary and foundation in the multilateral and security spaces that he brought back to his coursework and research interests at Dartmouth.

As a concrete project, he developed, piloted, and launched a new scheduling tool, now used across the entire organization, that addressed challenges in cross-department coordination. Noah thoroughly enjoyed his time in Malta, and the experience sparked an interest in countering extremism before it escalates to terrorism.

Farah Daredia ’26
Class of 1966 Scholar
"Thank you so much for your generous and gracious support.

"Coming to Dartmouth has been and will continue to be life-changing. This place feels like home: I knew it from the moment I stepped onto campus before I even applied. Dartmouth is full of wonderful people and opportunities that I’m so excited to experience throughout my four years here. I’m genuinely so grateful to be at this small college in the middle of the woods; there’s nowhere else I’d rather be.

"But I also am aware that this is an experience my family wouldn’t have been able to afford without aid. So, I have so much appreciation for you and your support. Thank you again, from the bottom of my heart."

— from Farah's letter to the Class of 1966.

Download an interesting PDF about our scholar Farah Daredia.