Blake Kravitz, a 2025 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s College of Arts and Sciences and the Wharton School, has been selected as a 2025 Yenching Scholar with full funding to pursue an interdisciplinary master’s degree in China studies at the Yenching Academy of Peking University in Beijing.
Kravitz is among the 114 scholars chosen from 40 countries and regions to enroll in the program in September. He is the eighth scholar affiliated with Penn to be awarded the scholarship since the program’s inception in 2015.
Kravitz, from Fort Lauderdale, graduated from the Huntsman Program and completed joint degrees in economics from the Wharton School and in international studies from the College of Arts and Sciences with an additional major in East Asian Languages and Civilizations with a certificate in Chinese language. At Penn, Blake served as a student fellow with The Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations. He interned in Washington, D.C. at the American Foreign Policy Council, Trivium China, the American Enterprise Institute, and the Foreign Policy Research Institute, researching U.S.-China relations, China's economy, and emerging technologies. Blake has previously studied in China on five different occasions, including intensive summer language programs like Princeton-in-Beijing at Beijing Normal University in the summer of 2024 and, most recently, a semester abroad during his final undergraduate year at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management.
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