Kash Radocha, of Hometown, graduated from Oberlin College and Conservatory in Oberlin, Ohio, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history with highest honors, law and society, politics and a minor in Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian studies

The daughter of Vanessa Gerhard and Tom Radocha, she is a graduate of Tamaqua Area High School, Class of 2022.

While attending Oberlin College and Conservatory, Radocha was a contributing conservatory editor for the Oberlin Review student newspaper, completed a history honors project, was the president of the Moot Court Team, a History department major representative, and studied classical percussion as a secondary student in the Conservatory.

She represented Oberlin College at the 76th Student Conference on United States Affairs, held at the United States Military Academy at West Point, attended the 2025 Athens Democracy Forum in Greece, a global conference attended by academics, political leaders, students, and practitioners committed to strengthening democratic values.

She was featured in a special edition of the New York Times, offering a youth perspective on democracy’s future and the everyday work that sustains it beyond the ballot box.

Radocha was the recipient of the Jerome Davis Research Award, the Oberlin Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies Winter Term Grant, and the Tomaszkiewicz-Florio Scholarship from the Kosciuszko Foundation to study Polish language, history and culture at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.

She was an intern for the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, an intern for Sen. Edward J. Markey in Washington D.C., and spent a month doing research for her history honors project in Krakow, Poland.

After graduation, she will be joining the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford to pursue the M.Sc. in Politics Research.