Tyler Monk, Elyse Reed, and Jacob Scheinblum have been awarded the 2025 PPE Prize for Citizenship.

This prize annually honors graduating students in the PPE major who have exemplified the spirit of PPE in their scholarship and through service to the campus community and beyond. In addition to the recognition, each honoree receives an award of $250.

PPE trains students to be thoughtful, creative, and constructive leaders, capable of navigating complex issues across a wide variety of domains. Many PPE students serve as leaders in student organizations and student government during their time on campus, and they begin making public contributions through internships and jobs in public service, nonprofits, and other activities. The PPE Prize for Citizenship celebrates these students -- and unfortunately we cannot honor all those who are deserving of the award.

This year, we are pleased to recognize three students who made a variety of contributions to their communities, but who also were instrumental in developing the undergraduate PPE Society over the past four years. We are deeply grateful for their efforts and wish them the best going forward.

Tyler Monk

Tyler is a PPE major with minors in Philosophy and Religious Studies and a Certificate in Civil Discourse for Citizenship. He served as Secretary of the PPE Society, where he authored an overhaul of the organization’s constitution and election procedures. A Civil Discourse Fellow with the Center for Ethics and Human Values, Tyler also helped to start and lead the Ohio State’s Ethics Bowl team. He was president of the Philosophy club and he has served as Constituent Aide in the Ohio House of Representatives, as a lobbying intern at a government affairs firm, and as Vice Chair of Operations for the Undergraduate Caucus in the University Senate.

 

Elyse Reed

Elyse is graduating with honors in PPE and with Honors research distinction in English for her thesis on eugenics and immigration law, for which she won an award in civil discourse through the Center for Ethics and Human Values at the Denman Research Forum. She also is president of Amnesty International on campus, and founded the PPE Student Book Club, which convenes students to discuss full texts in PPE topics out of class. She has also been involved with the Center for Ethics and Human values through the Civil Discourse program, of which she is a fellow.  In college she has worked with the Legal Aid Society of Columbus, Center Forward Policy Center (through the John Glenn Washington Academic Internship Program), Community Refugee and Immigration Services of Ohio, and now currently is working for Every Pregnancy—a maternal health program through the Gates Foundation—where she will transition to full time after graduation. 

Jacob Scheinblum

Jacob is graduating with a double major in PPE and Anthropology in the university's Honors program. He is a Civil Discourse Fellow (Inaugural Class) with the Center for Ethics and Human Values, and from 2022-2024 he served as President of the PPE Society. Twice he served as a student debate moderator for campus-wide events hosted by The Lantern.  He serves as Secretary for OSU's chapter of Amnesty International, and he completed an Honors research thesis in Anthropology entitled Molar Histology in Mangabeys and Guenons: Exploring the Relationship Between Enamel Prism Angle Variation and Diet.