WTS Philadelphia Scholarship: Student Spotlights: Rajni Anselm

WTS Philadelphia proudly awards scholarships to outstanding students from high school through graduate school who are passionate about pursuing careers in transportation. These highly competitive awards recognize students for their academic excellence, leadership, and commitment to advancing the future of transportation. This year, we awarded a total of $25,000 in scholarships to support and celebrate the next generation of transportation leaders and innovators.

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Rajni Anselm

Thomas Jefferson University

WTS Philadelphia Future of Transportation Scholarship    

My background is architecture, and I’m on the path to becoming a licensed architect. I didn’t expect to end up working in the transportation industry, but my time at Sowinski Sullivan changed that. It was genuinely refreshing to take on grounded, real-world problems that affect people every day, to work with materials that last, and to use my degree in a way that materially improves public life. That’s exactly what I was looking for, and it’s what I found in transportation.

1. What inspired you to pursue your current field of study or career path?

My late grandfather was an architect. He passed away before I was born, so I never met him, but when I was thinking about college majors during my senior year of high school, knowing that he was an architect led me to research architecture. Once I chose architecture, I never looked back.
 

2. What does receiving this scholarship mean to you?

This scholarship validates that I am where I’m supposed to be. 
 

3. Why do you think transportation is important to communities?

Transportation is the connective tissue of any community, defining how effectively it can scale and grow. This makes transportation construction and maintenance all the more important.