Dobyns-Bennett graduate Kyah Powers of ETSU Rhodes finalist

Dobyns-Bennett graduate Kyah Powers of ETSU Rhodes finalist

She is in the running for a scholarship to attend Oxford University in England and will finde out if she won Nov. 15 in Kansas City.

ETSU student is Rhodes Scholarship finalist

Kyah Powers was sitting in her aunt’s living room, sorting through old childhood materials, when she glanced down at her phone and noticed a single word: “Rhodes.” “We all went silent,” she said. She opened the email. Then the words stopped coming. Excited tears flowed. “I don’t come from a background where this is something I would have expected for myself,” said Powers, an East Tennessee State University senior double majoring in political sci…