Ericka Chehi ’12 Alpha Gamma Delta Follows Her Dream to Become an Economist in China

Ericka Chehi '12 Alpha Gamma Delta Women's Sorority

In the spring of 2007, while Ericka “Missy” Chehi ’12 (Greenville, Del.) was still a junior in high school, she took a whirlwind three-week tour of China as part of a leadership development program. Though she spoke no Chinese and spent only a brief time in a handful of cities—Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Guilin, Yangshuo, Huangshan—she found the country, especially the booming urban centers, astonishing.

Even so, Chehi never dreamed that four years later, during her junior year at Lafayette, she would live in China for 10 months—an experience that, coupled with internships in Allentown and Beijing, has shaped her plans to work with international energy trading companies in China. Read the Full Story…