Alex Counts is the founder of Grameen Foundation, which he established in 1997 as an outgrowth of his Fulbright Fellowship with Grameen Bank in 1988-89, and ran the organization for 18 years. Its budget grew to $25 million annually by its 12th year in operations. Today he is a consultant, educator, and writer, and the author of 4 books including “”Changing the World Without Losing Your Mind”” and “Small Loans, Big Dreams: Grameen Bank and the Microfinance Revolution in Bangladesh, America and Beyond.” You can find out more about him at http://www.alexcounts.com.

Nada Beth Glick, MA. MEd., Ed.D, currently a Career Counselor in private practice, has administered career development or counseling departments at Sarah Lawrence College, Westchester Community College/SUNY, and Yeshiva University. She has served on the Fulbright Association Board, and is currently FA Senior Fellow for Mentoring.
Fulbright International Educators Program Germany, 1995

JD, MS. Career Coach and Peacebuilding Trainer, President of Forage Center for Peacebuilding and Humanitarian Education Fulbright Scholar Estonia, 2003-04.

MAID, PhD. Distinguished Practitioner in residence at the School of International Service, American University, Washington, D.C. Recipient of 2011 One to World Fulbright Award for Citizen Diplomacy.

Renee Knake Jefferson is a law professor and an award-winning author whose work is frequently featured in the media including C-SPAN, MSNBC, National Public Radio, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. She holds the Doherty Chair in Legal Ethics at the University of Houston Law Center. She also serves as a trustee of Michigan State University. A Fulbright recipient and elected member of the American Law Institute, she regularly consults on matters related to lawyer/judicial ethics. She has testified before Congress about judicial recusal and before the federal judiciary about reform to sexual harassment and workplace misconduct rules. She is the author of four books and numerous articles published by leading journals like the Fordham Law Review, Illinois Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal Forum, as well as the book Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court, which was re-released this year in paperback.

Professor Barton is the Helen and Charles Lockett Distinguished Professor of Law and is the author of five books: The Credentialed Court, Fixing Law Schools, Rebooting Justice, Glass Half Full: The Decline and Rebirth of the Legal Profession, and The Lawyer-Judge Bias.
Barton is an expert in Supreme Court Justice backgrounds and access to justice issues. He has worked as an associate at a large law firm, clerked for a federal judge, represented the indigent for 12 years as a clinical law professor, and now teaches torts, contracts, evidence, conflict of laws, and the A2J Lab, an innovative law and coding class.
Professor Barton has won the student selected Harold C. Warner Outstanding Teacher Award and has been named the outstanding faculty advisor for UT Pro Bono three times. He also won the 2010 LSAC Philip D. Shelton Award for outstanding research in legal education. In 2014-15 he received a Fulbright Award to teach Comparative Law at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.

Patrice Moulton serves as full professor of psychology at Northwestern State University in the Masters’ Program for Clinical Psychology. She lives in Natchitoches Louisiana with husband, Michael Moulton, a graduate professor in sports administration. Their son, Bryce, is a student at Tulane University. Dr. Moulton has worked as an educator, administrator, practitioner, supervisor and consultant for over 30 years. She is the author of multiple self-help and higher education textbooks.

Dr. Moulton served as a Fulbright Specialists to Nepal in 2017 and has continued her work in Nepal collaborating in higher education and advocating for human rights through teaching and volunteering as a board member for Empower Nepali Girls Organization, which provides educational opportunities to girls at high-risk. . Patrice loves traveling, adventure, trekking, advocacy, volunteering, and community involvement.

Jay enjoys teaching International Business, with insights on country-cultures. He is a past-president of the Global Awareness Society International, and editor of the online Journal of Global Awareness. A tenured full professor at Tobin College of Business, St. John’s University, New York City. He is a Fulbright Senior Scholar to Thailand and Kazakhstan, enthusiastic about Fulbright mission—and sees the world as one large campus.

Arthur’s Fulbright experience was in Skopje, North Macedonia as a core-scholar. He is a sociologist and has worked as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and other local universities. His experiences through Fulbright and as a sociologist brought him to the realization of the central purpose of building dialog in our societies which led him to his current path of developing an organization that focuses on developing Empirical Dialog. A central purpose for him is to theoretically see deeper into our common social structure and to develop the best strategic choices for the evolution of our societies.

J.P. is a Fulbright Scholar to Greece. His Fulbright experience was incredibly valuable as it helped him to launch the research and chart his current career in genetics and developmental biology, including research projects to understand genetic variation in traits among varied species. His experience also provided him with lasting relationships that have endured during his career. He is currently a tenured professor and Associate Director of the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Oklahoma.

George is a Fulbright Exchange Biology Teacher for the school year 1990-91, in West Midland, England. Active Vermont Fulbright Chapter member. Strongly believes in Fulbright mission, continues to engage with his host community, personally and professionally, ever since.

Jeffrey Stanley was a 2018-19 Fulbright-Nehru Research Scholar in India, and serves as a Fulbright Scholar Alumni Ambassador. He wrote the play Tesla’s Letters (Samuel French, 2000), a wartime drama set in the late 1990s Balkans which premiered Off Broadway to rave reviews in 1999, and which has been produced around the world. His essays have been published in the Washington Post, New York Times, et al, and he is a performance artist and filmmaker. Stanley was an inmate at Yaddo and a Copeland Fellow at Amherst College. He holds MFA and BFA degrees from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Drexel University Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, and an adjunct faculty at NYU Tisch. He lives in Philadelphia.

Marilyn Susman, Ph.D. is Professor Emerita in Counseling Psychology at Loyola University Chicago and Adjunct Professor, The Chicago School. During her tenure at Loyola she taught courses in counseling skills, theory, consultation and supervision. She developed an interdisciplinary course on the Psychology and Theology of Personal Growth. She conducted research and published on the Inner Experiences of Therapists across Developmental Levels. She was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Malaysia (1997) in Cyprus (2003) and a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Indonesia (2013.) She continues to provide workshops for school counselors in Indonesia sponsored by Sanata Dharma University. She is in the private practice of a psychology working with individuals of all ages and couples. She provides supervision for students at The Chicago Center of Psychoanalysis.

Suzanne McBride is a professor of journalism and dean of the School of Graduate Studies at Columbia College Chicago. She also works as an editor at the Chicago Sun-Times and runs the local news web site AustinTalks.org, which covers Chicago’s West Side. She has lectured in Asia, Canada, Europe and the United States, and in 2012, she was a Fulbright Scholar in Ireland, where she taught at the Dublin Institute of Technology. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Iowa, Suzanne served as a legislative aide for former Congressman Tony P. Hall in Washington, D.C., before earning a master’s degree in journalism with honors from Northwestern University. She’s also worked at The Indianapolis Star, the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette and WTHR-Channel 13.

Michael Schlesinger is the founding director of the Business Enterprise Law Clinic at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law (UIC Law, Ret.), where he also served as an adjunct professor teaching Transactional Law and Representing the Business Client, a course he created, and Corporation Law. Before joining UIC Law, Michael practiced business and transactional law for nearly 40 years with a mid-size Chicago law firm. Michael was a Fulbright Scholar in the Czech Republic for the 2018—2019 academic year at the Faculty of Law, Palacký University and appointed as a Visiting Professor. Michael is a graduate of UIC Law where he was a member of the law review and earned a degree in Economics from Dickinson College.

Dr. Ana Gil Garcia, professor Emerita, five-time Fulbright Scholar, is an internationally acclaimed professional, published author, esteemed community leader and forerunning advocate for diversity. She works tirelessly with organizations devoted to Latino leadership parity and equity. With more than 100 awards and recognitions for her work on educational leadership, higher education, and human rights, she has launched Latina empowerment programs, junior faculty development trainings, teacher and principal preparations, digital access advocacy for Latinos, Hispanic professional educational organization coalitions and international bridges for minority students. Rotary Club President (2022-23), she co-founded the Illinois Venezuelan Alliance, 501(c3) organization, to assist Venezuelan refugees. The Executive Director of the Office of Academic Effectiveness at St. Augustine College, LULAC National Education Committee Vice-Chair, is a Fulbright Chicago Chapter Board member.

Diane Boothe is Professor and Director of P-20 Outreach at Boise State University. She served as Dean of the College of Education at Boise State University from 2005-2014 and Department Chair of Curriculum and Instruction and Professor at the University of West Georgia previously. She participated in the Fulbright France International Education Administrators Program in 2014. Her research areas include gifted education, cultural diversity and second language acquisition, and she has been featured as the keynote and plenary speaker at international and national conferences in these areas. She coauthored a book titled In the Eyes of the Beholder: Critical Issues for Diversity in Gifted Education and holds a doctorate in public administration from the University of Southern California.

Dr. Patricia Brock has been a professor in the School of Education at Pace University NYC for 27 years but extended her collegial reach beyond the university footprint. She is currently an invited member of the Abu Dhabi University Global Engagement Program physically located in the UAE where international scholars offer webinars on topics that cross cultural borders and disciplines. At this session she will share sample programs, benefits and challenges of participating in this intriguing adventure of educational exchanges. Collaborative points will include encouraging and accessing membership, sharing your global links, and highlighting your experiences in a global community of scholars.

Dr. Kathie Erwin is an Associate Professor in the Masters Counseling Program at Divine Mercy University. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, National Certified Counselor, National Certified Gerontological Counselor and AMHCA Diplomate in Mental Health Counseling. Dr Erwin served as Fulbright Specialist to University of Iceland (2018). She is a Master Field Traumatologist and Board Member of Green Cross Academy of Traumatology who has served as Team Leader in Trinidad, India, Romania, and Ukraine. Author of seven professional counseling books, Group Work for Aging Adults, 2nd Edition (2013) generated international interest.

I was born in Denver, Colorado. While completing my undergraduate degree, I studied at the University of Bordeaux. After graduation, I took a position in Japan teaching English which grew to my own company teaching English and French. After my first French teaching job, I taught high school English literature. I published two public speaking books: In Their Own Words in 2005 and Speaking Out: An Introduction to Public Speaking in 2011. In 2005, I received a Fulbright to work in Turkey and ran teacher training seminars throughout Turkey. I have spoken on a variety of subjects including Protest Poetry, Religious Pluralism, Student- Centered Classroom, Modern Tyranny, and language acquisition through Total Physical Response and Total Physical Response Storytelling.

Prof. Daryl Gordon is an Associate Professor at Adelphi University in the Bilingual/TESOL Program. She and her colleagues developed a Fulbright Campus Committee over 10 years ago. They have been successful in encouraging students who might lack the funds for an international experience to become Fulbright scholars.

Dr. Wu is an Associate Professor in the Bilingual/TESOL Program at Adelphi University. She serves on the Campus Fulbright Committee and on the Fulbright ETA Review Committee.

Mariana Hernandes Grassi has been teaching English as a Second Language and Portuguese as a Foreign Language since 2010. She was the first Fulbright Scholar at Brookdale Community College (Lincroft – NJ, USA, 2013-2014) as part of the Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) program. Mariana Hernandes Grassi holds an MA in TESOL from American University (Washington – DC, USA, 2019) and a BEd in Language and Literature Education from Universidade Federal de Pelotas (Pelotas – RS, Brazil, 2013). She is currently pursuing an MA in Women’s Studies and Gender Studies and an EdD in Curriculum, Culture and Communities at Loyola University Chicago. Her main research interests focus on gender inequalities within educational institutions as well as teacher-owned cooperatives as better educational alternatives.

Maya Kalyanpur, Professor, Department of Teaching and Learning at the University of San Diego, received her PhD in Special Education from Syracuse University. She was an international advisor in inclusive education to the Cambodian Ministry of Education under the Global Partnership for Education program and has conducted research on the intersections of culture, international development and disability studies, with a specific focus on international inclusive education policy and practice. She was awarded the AERA Multicultural/Multiethnic Education Vallejo Memorial Award for Lifetime Scholarship and was a Fulbright Foundation Senior Research Fellow to India. Her most recent book is titled Development, education and learning disability in India.

“I am a recipient of a Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar award 2018-19 (Research) awarded by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board (FFSB). My research for the Fulbright grant was based on the study of the Devanagari script in terms of type and culture and creative explorations of the script as an art form. Believing that typography isn’t just for content I engage in the complexities of painting as a medium and examine type as an art form in of itself.
I am a tenured professor at Tallahassee Community College (TCC), with both a B.F.A. and a M.F.A. in graphic design, and serve as the primary faculty for the Graphic and Web Design Technology degree. “

Prof., Dr., Gulnara Malbagarovna Mendikulova is the President of Mendikulov’s Foundation, Professor, Department of Social Disciplines, Satbayev University, Ministry of Education and Science, Republic of Kazakhstan (MES RK).
My main research areas are the historical and current problems of ethnic politics, the Kazakh Diaspora and Irredenta, Migration in Eurasia, ethnicity, polyethnicity in Central Asia, and others. I am Doktor istoricheskikh nauk, Full Professor of History, Academician of the International Academy of History and Social Sciences.
I am a founder of the new branch in the Social Sciences in Kazakhstan – Diaspora Studies. I created a new research school: have a few Post-docs, PhD, MA and Bachelors.
I have had Kazakhstani and International fellowships, grants, awards, including the Fulbright grant (1999, 2013), and Fulbright Alumni grant (2005).

Dr. Brenda Moore is an associate professor at Texas Woman’s University in the College of Nursing . Her research and academic interest is focused on nursing education, simulation and success of historically marginalized students.

Dr. Ghazi is the Dean of Faculty at Badr University Cairo, College of Nursing

Roberts’ area of expertise is international comparative education aligned with ideologies that inform the globalization and internationalization of academic communities worldwide. As an educator Roberts has dedicated many years as a teacher with children and adults from all world regions. She welcomes opportunities to design courses and projects for students to examine global events and challenges of the contemporary era. Roberts has lived, taught, and conducted field research in Myanmar, Thailand, Taiwan, Spain, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and the United States. She completed two 11-month Fulbright awards in Taiwan and Myanmar along with an 11-month US State Department fellowship at the Mandalay University in Mandalay Myanmar. Favorite quote: Be the change you want to see in the world (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi).

Prof. Vishnu Sharma is currently working as Professor in a state Government University in India. Looking to his academic and administrative excellence, at the age of 52, he was appointed as Vice Chancellor of state university by Govt. ( Rajasthan University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Bikaner, India) for a term for 3 years . He was given additional responsibility of Vice Chancellorship of other two state Govt. universities.
He successfully completed tenure of all 3 universities and initiated some unique programmes for “”Entrepreneurship skills of students””, Farm Sustainability and complete digitalization university management. He received “” e-governance award”” for this implementation . He was also conferred Honorary rank of “”Colonel”” in recognition to his contribution.
He had travelled abroad for many scientific and academic assignments and published significant contributions.
His vision is to “”link universities in development aspects of society””

Dr Sanjita is DEAN of Veterinary College and 33 years experience in university teaching and research.

Carol Sterling has been a professional puppeteer, teaching artist, teacher trainer and arts educator for 50 years plus, as well as a Fulbright Program Specialist in Arts Education with a specialization in Educational Puppetry in Uganda (2012) and India (2015). Since her retirement in 2011 as Director of Arts Education for the Brooklyn Arts Council, she has conducted workshops for teachers, caregivers, librarians, parents, and youth throughout the United States and in 10 countries. Ms. Sterling has served in leadership positions as President of UNIMA-USA, the international organization of American puppeteers, as an Education Consultant for Puppeteers of America, Director of Education for American Council on the Arts, among others. She has authored curriculum guides and articles and is a consultant with the Jim Henson Foundation. She has a M.A. in Fine Arts and Art Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, and B.A. from Barnard College.

Dr. Nancy Bartley was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar to Bulgaria in 2012. She is the author of a nonfiction monograph, The Boy Who Shot the Sheriff, the Redemption of Herbert Niccolls, Jr. (UW Press, 2013). She has shares in two Pulitzer Prizes for team reporting during her tenure as a reporter for the Seattle Times and is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards for scholarship and journalism. She is a 2022 doctoral graduate of the University of Washington, Department of English, specializing in cultural theory. Her research concerns consensual validation and otherness and how certain conditions cause groups to form that isolate others and promote the rise of fascism. Her research concerns totalitarian regimes from the Third Reich, to the former Soviet Bloc, to present-day political conflicts. Her theory stems from research she began as a Fulbrighter as she witnessed Bulgaria’s struggle for meaningful democracy.

Alexandra Campbell-Ferrari is the Executive Director and CoFounder of The Center for Water Security and Cooperation, a nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that law and practice guarantee water security and universal access to water and sanitation. Ms. Campbell-Ferrari also teaches Water Law as an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law and American University Washington College of Law

Deputy Director and CoFounder of the Center for Water Security and Cooperation
Adjunct Professor of International Law, George Washington University Elliot School of International Affairs

Rob Houston is the Executive Director of The Global Pro Bono Bar Association as well as an International Arbitration practitioner and Pro Bono Coordinator with a global law firm. His professional focus is on public international law and investment treaty arbitration, including the recent development of a draft model bilateral investment treaty incorporating business and human rights principles for the first time. Rob is also a leader in his firm’s Anti-Human Trafficking Initiative, having coordinated a number of multi-jurisdictional pro bono projects involving dozens of collaborating law firms around the world. He holds the Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown Law in Washington, DC as well as the Master of Economic Law degree (Master II, Global Governance Studies) from Sciences Po Law School in Paris.

Veronica Onorevole is a leader in cultivating and managing international relationships for U.S. and foreign governments, foundations and industry partners, institutions of higher education, subject-matter experts, and international associations. At ACE, she is responsible for supporting emerging technologies and global learning innovation initiatives in U.S. and global higher education. Prior to joining ACE, Onorevole worked at the Institute of International Education overseeing administration of the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program in the East Asia Pacific region.

Maria Balinska is the Executive Director of the US-UK Fulbright Commission. Educated in the US and in Europe, she joined the BBC in London in 1991, where she worked until 2009 as a producer and then senior editor focusing on international affairs.
She returned to the US in 2009 on a Nieman fellowship at Harvard and subsequently founded Latitude News, an experiment in reporting America’s links with the rest of the world in new ways. In 2014, Maria joined as the editor-in chief of The Conversation US, a non-profit digital daily where the content is authored by academics and edited by journalists for the public. Maria is a strong supporter of the Fulbright mission of expanding international educational and cultural exchange and making it widely accessible.

John E. Fowler has 20+ years of experience in American, British, and German higher education working at the intersection of pedagogy, academic technology, and international education to widen access to educational opportunities for all students through faculty and institutional innovation. At the American Council on Education, he collaborates with institutions and organizations to develop technology-driven internationalization strategies, including helping lead ACE’s VE/COIL Transformation Labs which develop partnerships between the USA and countries around the world.

Aliye P. Celik (Ph.D) has worked in the United Nations as the Chief of Economic and Social Council and Interorganizational Cooperation Branch, in DESA and earlier at the United Nations Program for Human Settlements (UN-HABITAT) as the Director of the New York office, and in Nairobi. She has B.Arch and M.Arch degrees from Middle East Technical University, a MFA in Architecture from Princeton University and a PhD from Istanbul Technical University. Celik is a Fulbright scholar and received a Special Citations (1997) (2009) and an Award for Excellence (1970) from the American Institute of Architects, among others. She is the Past President of Soroptimist International New York City and the Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization which she founded. .Nowadays she is Chair of the Board of the Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization. She has written extensively on sustainable urbanization, affordable housing, energy conservation and woman and human settlements.

Dr. Richard Vogel, Assistant Professor in Communication and Media at Culver Stockton College in Canton, MO. Prior to his time at CSC, he was a consulting producer to an award winning news program and a writer, producer and director of a number of corporate videos as well as public service announcements. He teaches a range of media writing, production and theory courses and has advised a skit comedy show, directed sporting events, news and other programming. .
He has also taught media law and English composition courses in addition to 25 years of teaching public speaking. His primary research interests involve creating and disseminating media literacy curricula including critical thinking elements for ages K-12 and for universities.

John Weaver is Associate Professor of Intelligence Analysis at York College of Pennsylvania. His research interests include intelligence analysis, cybersecurity, U.S. national security, the United Nations, and NATO.

Dr. Tom Røseth is Associate Professor of Intelligence Studies at the Norwegian Defence University College in Oslo Norway. His research interests include the war in Ukraine, intelligence relationships, Russian-China relations and the Arctic.

Jeffrey Stanley was a 2018-19 Fulbright-Nehru Research Scholar in India, and serves as a Fulbright Scholar Alumni Ambassador. He wrote the play Tesla’s Letters (Samuel French, 2000), a wartime drama set in the late 1990s Balkans which premiered Off Broadway to rave reviews in 1999, and which has been produced around the world. His essays have been published in the Washington Post, New York Times, et al, and he is a performance artist and filmmaker. Stanley was an inmate at Yaddo and a Copeland Fellow at Amherst College. He holds MFA and BFA degrees from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Drexel University Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, and an adjunct faculty at NYU Tisch. He lives in Philadelphia.

Justin Hansford is a Howard University School of Law Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center. Professor Hansford was previously a Democracy Project Fellow at Harvard University, a Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, and an Associate Professor of Law at Saint Louis University. He has a B.A. from Howard University and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was a founder of the Georgetown Journal of Law and Modern Critical Race Perspectives. Professor Hansford also has earned a Fulbright Scholar award to study the legal career of Nelson Mandela, and served as a clerk for Judge Damon J. Keith on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Kayla Gardner (she/they) is a 3L at Howard University School of Law from Broward County, Florida. They graduated from the University of Miami in 2020, majoring in Business Marketing and minoring in Africans Studies and Strategic Communications. Their background stems from grassroots organizing, community outreach, civic engagement, and political advocacy on a state and federal level. Kayla heavily frames her work around topics rooted in Black feminism, and plans to do work in environmental law at the intersection of race and class. Last summer, she worked at the Environmental Law Institute as an Environmental Justice Law Clerk, and she is currently a student attorney in Howard University’s Movement Lawyering Clinic where she works on international human rights issues.

Dr. LaTanya White is an expert in belonging, racial equity, and entrepreneurship. As a result of her leadership, impact, and contributions to the Education and Business Administration sectors, Dr. White was recognized by the U.S. Department of State as a Fulbright Specialist. She leverages her research and expertise on Black entrepreneurship and the racial wealth gap to help entrepreneurs and the inclusive organizations that support them create racial equity in their policies, practices, and programming. Dr. White is a 2x author, TEDx Speaker, and Founder of Concept Creative Group, a professional and management development training firm focused on empowering Black entrepreneurs, their families, and their communities. Learn more about Dr. White’s solutions for equity in entrepreneurship at https://meetdrwhite.com/howtobraceforimpact.

Dan C. Baciu is Fulbright alumnus (PhD at Illinois Tech, Postdoc at UC Santa Barbara) and assistant professor of digital tools at TU Delft. His work unites traditional scientific methods and artificial intelligence to study human culture, creativity, and diversity.

Dr. Joannie Marlene Bewa is a medical doctor from Benin and a Fulbright alumna. She is research associate, instructor, and doctoral candidate in public health at University of South Florida and focuses on sexual, reproductive, and maternal health in the U.S. and Africa.

Dr. Lois M. Meyer, Professor Emerita, Dept. of Language, Literacy & Sociocultural Studies, University of New Mexico, continues 23 years of intensive collaboration with Plan Piloto-CMPIO, a coalition of 1100 Indigenous bilingual teachers in rural Oaxaca MX. This collaboration, begun with a Fulbright Senior Researcher award in 1999-2000, has produced multiple published articles authored or co-authored with Oaxacan teacher colleagues and published internationally in both English and Spanish. The most recent article is now undergoing publication in Mexico. In addition to collaborative publications and multiple conference presentations, we have produced three co-edited books. The most recent, New World of Indigenous Resistance (City Lights: 2010), includes three interviews with Noam Chomsky conducted by Meyer & responses by Indigenous leaders and scholars across the hemisphere.

Kathleen Mulligan is a professor of voice and speech in the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance at Ithaca College. In 2010, she was a Fulbright Scholar to India with her project Finding Women’s Voices, focused on the empowerment of women through voice. In 2015, she and husband David Studwell partnered with Pakistan’s Theatre Wallay on “Voices of Partition”, creating an original play based on interviews with Partition survivors. In spring 2023, Mulligan will return to India as a Fulbright grantee to complete the project with stories from the other side of the border. She is a professional actor and a member of Actors’ Equity Association. In 2019, she was invited to American University of Beirut to perform her one-woman show “The Belle of Amherst”.

Patrice Moulton serves as full professor of psychology at Northwestern State University in the Masters’ Program for Clinical Psychology. She lives in Natchitoches Louisiana with husband, Michael Moulton, a graduate professor in sports administration. Their son, Bryce, is a student at Tulane University. Dr. Moulton has worked as an educator, administrator, practitioner, supervisor and consultant for over 30 years. She is the author of multiple self-help and higher education textbooks.

Dr. Moulton served as a Fulbright Specialists to Nepal in 2017 and has continued her work in Nepal collaborating in higher education and advocating for human rights through teaching and volunteering as a board member for Empower Nepali Girls Organization, which provides educational opportunities to girls at high-risk. . Patrice loves traveling, adventure, trekking, advocacy, volunteering, and community involvement.

I, Ellen Anders, began my 38 year teaching career in the humanities. I extended my education in French Culture by taking a sabbatical in Paris, France at the Sorbonne. I further enriched my knowledge by accepting two Fulbright Teaching Exchanges. First exchange was in Canada,1980; most of the students were of Native American background. The second exchange was in Morocco,1998. It was during these exchanges that I recognized the importance of craft artistry as being of importance in boosting women’s and disempowered people’s civil rights.

Today, fashion studies is an academic discipline in many universities and fosters the history of human rights. I feel privileged to lecture and write about fashion advocacy.

Fulbright Hayes Chinese Language Immersion Program recipient and 3rd year ESOL educator. I explore and continue to learn about the world and it’s words through less traditional lenses; profanity and slang. I love endurance athletics and getting to know the heart of someone’s culture and language over a beer and the first thing I have to ask is, “how do you say the bad words in your L1?”

William Wilen is Professor Emeritus of Social Studies and Teacher Education at Kent State University in Ohio where he had taught in the areas of Curriculum & Instruction since 1970. He received his doctorate from Pennsylvania State University. Prior to retirement in 2004, he held semester teaching positions as a Fulbright scholar in Horlivka, Ukraine (2003) and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1994), and as a faculty exchange professor at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece (2002). He has also been a visiting professor at universities in Geneva, Switzerland; Sydney, Australia; and Puebla, Mexico, and, most recently, at National Taichung University in Taiwan (2008). In addition to co-authoring Dynamics of Effective Secondary Teaching (6th edition, Allyn and Bacon, 2008), Dr. Wilen has authored and edited other books, chapters and articles.

Anne Fitzgibbon is a social entrepreneur with 25 years of experience in arts education, nonprofit leadership, and city government. She founded the Harmony Program while working as a policy advisor in the administration of New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and received a Fulbright Fellowship in 2007 to study Venezuela’s renowned national youth orchestra system, “El Sistema,” and adapt tenets of its model to serve children in New York City. The Harmony Program has reached thousands of children to date and celebrates its 15th anniversary this year. Anne holds a graduate degree in public affairs from Princeton University and an undergraduate degree from Barnard College. She studied clarinet at the Juilliard School through the Columbia/Barnard/Juilliard exchange program.

Rizwangul NurMuhammd is a Uyghur kiwi from New Zealand and recipient of Fulbright New Zealand Award 2022.
She graduated from Cornell University with a Master of Public Administration in May 2022.
She is also a co-founder of Empower Communities Charitable Trust, a New Zealand-registered nonprofit organization that offers assistance to vulnerable and marginalized communities, particularly Uyghurs. She received 2022 Adams Leadership Award for her work on this nonprofit organization.

Masachs Boungou is from the Republic of the Congo living in the U.S. Born to a mother who never finished high school but emphasized to him the inspirational power of personal history and education, he survived a civil war in 1999 and taught himself English as an adult. As a Fulbright scholar, he received a dual master’s degree from Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management in 2016. From 2016-2018, he founded and ran the ”Nunga Program”, a social enterprise focusing on youth entrepreneurship, peacebuilding, and leadership in the Congo. In 2018, Masachs received the New Leaders Group Award from the Institute of International Education (IIE). He earned a Ph.D. in Global Studies in 2022 from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. His thesis explores how immigrants who experienced genocide and/or civil war use these experiences to fuel their entrepreneurial drive and business creation. Masachs has recently published his memoir, The Power of Personal History.

Dr. Fadia Braktia is an educator with experience in teaching culturally and linguistically diverse students in elementary, secondary, and university settings. She is experienced in content-based and immersive language teaching and learning. She worked closely with pre-service teachers in addressing languages and cultural responsiveness in K-12 settings. She has international experience working in Algeria, China, the United States, Costa Rica, and Russia. She earned an EdD in literacy as well as was awarded a United States Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant grant.

Dr. Audas is an Assistant Professor of Education at Hampton University, a top-tier HBCU that specializes in training next-generation persons of color in educational leadership and K-12 classroom practitioners.

Prior positions include the Executive Directorship of Educational Outcomes a U.S.-based non-profit centered on trauma-informed solutions for learners worldwide.

Currently, he is working in partnership with both the Lycee St. Ursule and Verbal Aikido researching de-escalation techniques in classrooms in France and working to complete his 2nd book.

Past projects include the development and management of a Trauma-Informed GED Prep Program for at-risk adults as well as Trauma-Informed Teacher Training Programs in Turkey, Syria, and Algeria, in addition to adult literacy programs in Texas.

Dr. Audas holds a Doctorate in Education/Literacy from Sam Houston State University and has been an 8th-grade History teacher and a university-level faculty member preparing incoming teachers for their chosen profession.

Caballero is an MBA graduate student at the University of the Incarnate Word who will receive her degree this December. By day she is an Executive Assistant to the Superintendent at a public school in San Antonio, Texas.
Her love of learning never ends. Fulbright is an organization that provided her an opportunity in her local chapter to speak about a topic she felt very passionate about – theme parks – at the beginning of her graduate career.
Caballero hopes to help businesses seek innovative ways of improving their current systems for efficiency and productivity. In addition, she hopes to prepare future leaders while continuing her own professional growth.

Robby Anggriawan got his Fulbright Award in 2018 – 2020 at Illinois State University for Teaching and Learning, Curriculum and Instruction. Currently, he is continuing his study for the doctoral degree at the same university. His research interests are STEM Education, Integrated Learning, and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, and international comparative education.

Jalal Awan (he/him) is a doctoral candidate from Pakistan pursuing his Ph.D. in Policy Analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School and working as an assistant policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. Prior to joining RAND, Awan worked as an electrical engineer with hands-on experience on industrial electrical and control systems. His research interests broadly fall under technology policy and include energy and climate policy (green energy transition in California, smart grid & equitable decarbonization), and the use of emerging technologies (IoT devices, autonomous vehicles, satellite-based remote sensing) for climate mitigation and adaptation. As a Fulbright Exchange scholar, he completed his M.S. in green technologies from the University of Southern California in December 2015. Awan is a member of IEEE, Six Sigma Green Belt from the American Society for Quality (ASQ) and holds the U.S. Green Building Council certification in Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED).

Khaled Amir Benaida, I am an award-winning Architect and Designer. I come from a progressive family passionate about arts and politics.
From 2016 to 2018, I produced research on shell structures at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, USA. The thesis is called force driven weave pattern for shell structures in architecture:design.
Since the covid-19 pandemic, I am working to refine my repertoire in Architecture and design through international design competitions. Since then, I have collaborated with famous Oscar-nominated movie directors in cinema (Djaffar Gacem), and on an interior design project under the leadership of Ahmed Rachedi. on the redesign of the president of Algeria’s presidential room. I am also a teacher assistant at the school of Architecture of Algiers EPAU.

Ms. Celia Maria Blandón teaches at Gove Elementary, Palm Beach County schools district as a Dual Language Teacher in Belle Glade, Fl. She has taught Spanish, French as World Languages from Elementary to College levels. Ms. Blandon was awarded a Fulbright-Hays Seminar scholar to Peru in 2016. A scholarship recipient from The Council for the Development of French in Louisiana, the Ministry of Education from Spain, and The French Ministry of National Education and FFLA Teacher Hall of Fame. She earned her undergraduate degree from the Northwestern State University of Louisiana, French studies at Université de la Sorbonne, Paris, France, and a Master’s Degree from Nova Southeastern University.  She is the Spanish National Friendship Society sponsor, the Multicultural Club, and the Chess Club. She is currently a student at Florida International University.

Carla Cabrera Cuadrado is an intercultural communication specialist with experience in non-profit organizations, private corporations, and public administration in three different continents. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Communication and Interculturality at the Universidad de Valencia, with a focus on Public Diplomacy. She graduated as a Fulbright scholar from American University School of International Service, where she completed her M.A. in Intercultural and International Communication with a concentration on Cultural and Public Diplomacy. She had previously studied a B.A. in International Business Management at Hochschule Bremen in Germany and a B.A. in International Business at Universidad de Valencia in Spain. She is also the first-elected and youngest President of SIETAR Europa (Society of Intercultural Education, Training and Research).

Originally from Spain, Jesús is pursuing a Master’s in Migration Studies at the University of San Francisco under a Fulbright Spain-Junta de Andalucía scholarship. He holds a Bachelor’s in International Relations (studied in Spain and Brazil) and a Master’s in European Union.
He has experience in research and advocacy for migrant rights, as well as in development and Central American affairs. His main focus is on the root causes of migration and the impact of border externalization policies on the rights of migrants and asylum seekers from a comparative perspective.
He believes that everyone has the right to migrate and thrive in the place they would like to stay.

Hilda Green Demsky has a BFA in Painting & Design from Carnegie Mellon University and a Master’s Degree in Art Education from Hunter College, NYC. Awards include a Fulbright to The Netherlands, National Endowment for the Arts, Italy, Some highlights are an invitational exhibition in Mykonos, Greece, presentations at Fulbright conferences in Hungary and Morocco, exhibition at the National Gallery of Costa Rica, Christa McAuliffe Fellowship, Andy Warhol Residency, Puffin Foundation, and Cill Riailiag, Ireland.

Cheryl Drout, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, SUNY Fredonia. 2008 Fulbright Scholar at Aichi University of Education in Kariya, Japan. Fulbright-Hayes faculty travel-study program in Japan 1995. Former Psychology Chair and Program Coordinator for Psychology Dual Diploma program with Izmir University of Economics, Izmir, Turkey. Recent accomplishments include completion of the Fredonia Cultural Competency Institute and being Fredonia’s first female faculty member promoted by SUNY to the rank of Distinguished Service Professor. I have conducted research and published articles with my students in the areas of attitudes toward victims of violence and comparative education reform. Former students work in numerous cultures in the fields of psychology and education, such as Japan, China, and Turkey.

Dr Kathie Erwin is an Associate Professor in the Masters Counseling Program at Divine Mercy University. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, National Certified Counselor, National Certified Gerontological Counselor and AMHCA Diplomate in Mental Health Counseling. Dr Erwin served as Fulbright Specialist to University of Iceland (2018). She is a Master Field Traumatologist and Board Member of Green Cross Academy of Traumatology who has served as Team Leader in Trinidad, India, Romania, and Ukraine. Author of seven professional counseling books, Group Work for Aging Adults, 2nd Edition (2013) generated international interest.

Eric Fretz is professor and chair of the peace and justice studies department at Regis University in Denver, Colorado where he teaches classes on literature and social movements, community organizing, and the history of nonviolent social change (to name a few). He has published numerous essays about the American community organizing tradition, climate change and the humanities, American literature, and civic engagement. He also edited and contributed chapters to a book of essays, Climate Change Across the Curriculum (Lexington Books, 2015). In 2016 he was a Fulbright Scholar in Timisoara, Romania where he taught in the American Studies department at the University of the West.
He received his Ph.D. in English and American Studies from Michigan State University.

Tim Gonchoroff is an interdisciplinary artist and Assistant Professor of Sculpture at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Edinburg, TX. His artwork examines the ecologies of the Anthropocene through the lens of materiality. Many of his works combine fiber-based processes such as weaving, natural dyeing, spinning, and sewing with post-consumer materials such as vinyl banners, plastic bags, and many others to create installations, weavings, and other multimedia works. He received his BA in Art History from the College of William & Mary and his MFA in Sculpture from Alfred University. Tim was a Fulbright Grantee to Tromsø, Norway in 2015-16.

Marcia J. Harr Bailey, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at University of Wisconsin-Platteville. During her Fulbright U.S. Student grant period to Laos in 2009, she explored the service ethic of Laotian undergrad students. In 2011, she launched Poom Loom, a nonprofit project that connects Laotian college students to service opportunities as a means of grassroots development. Poom Loom connected UW-P students with partners in Laos in 2019. In 2021 she launched Prototype Your Life (PYL), which uses digital tools to help cohort participants develop entrepreneurship mindsets and skillsets needed to launch new projects and startups. PYL seeks to empower participants to innovate solutions to the problems in their communities. With plans to scale this program, she is currently seeking global partners.

Fulbrighter, Journalist with Advanced Studies in Politics and Government. Specialist in Digital Marketing and Entrepreneurship. Business Learning Facilitator and Strategic Communication Advisor. I have a solid background in Gestalt Psychology and Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP). Co-Founder and Director of Lima Emprende (Peru) and La Cuadra Universitaria (Venezuela). Graduated from the ProExcellence Program of the Venezuelan American Friendship Association (AVAA). Advisor to several recognized companies in Latin America and Mentor of multiple Latin American ventures. I have won various personal, academic and professional recognitions. My passion is guiding entrepreneurs to achieve business success. I am currently doing a master’s degree in Digital Media Strategies at Georgia State University, and I am one of the directors of “Women’s Catalysis”, a project aimed at empowering women.

Dr. Monica Lakhwani is the Multicultural Specialist for Diversity, Equity, and Poverty with Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS). She is responsible for facilitating cultural competency trainings for district and community organizations. Additionally she serves as a Humanities/ESL adjunct in the Louisville Metropolitan Area, leads the districts LGBTQ+ Advisory Committee, and continues to participate with World Affairs Council in hosting international dinners and homestays.

Dr. Lakhwani is a Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity (SEED) trainer and facilitates Diversity/Justice cohorts each year empowering positive change. She received her doctorate from Spalding University in Educational Leadership focusing on cross-cultural studies. Her interests lie in socio-cultural norms, refugee resettlement, and diverse learners. In her spare time, she loves to read and travel; and is a mother, daughter, and spouse.

Katt Lissard is the artistic director of The Winter/Summer Institute (WSI), an international HIV/AIDS & Theatre for Social Change project based in New York and Lesotho, southern Africa (wsimaketheatre.org). A teacher, writer and activist , she spent two years in the Theatre Unit at the National University of Lesotho as a Fulbright Scholar (2005, 2012), where she taught, directed, and produced shows – WSI grew out of her early work there. The most recent publication of her work is the first chapter in ILA’s A Grassroots Leadership and Arts for Social Change Primer (July 2022). A longtime faculty member of the Graduate Institute at Goddard College, Katt currently teaches in the Department of Ethnic and Race Studies at City University’s BMCC in New York.

My name is Hugo Mendieta, Fulbright Alumnus from Nicaragua with a MSc. In Industrial and Systems Engineering and concentrations in Sustainability and Additive Manufacturing. For the last 4.5 years I have worked in the 3D Printing Industry for EOS GmbH, world leader in Industrial 3D printing, in roles that encompassed design, R & D, project management and a bit of sales, taking care of customers in Europe, Asia, Middle East and just starting in South America. Engineer by profession but artist at heart, I live in Munich, Germany, and besides tasty healthy food, I love painting, making music, writing, playing sports (soccer & gym) and traveling. My purpose is to improve the life quality of people with sustainable technologies and to inspire through art.

Amirah Nelson serves as the Senior Outreach Officer for the Fulbright Specialist Program, and has over a decade of experience administering U.S. Government-funded exchanges. She previously also served as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant to Indonesia and as a consultant for the Indonesian Directorate General of Higher Education on its initiatives to address teacher shortages in Indonesia’s remote and disadvantaged regions.

Mary E Rauktis is a social work professor at the University of Pittsburgh. She was a 2017 Fulbright Scholar to Portugal, University of Porto

Clara Rice is a recent Fulbright alumni and young professional entering the field of global health and development. After completing her undergraduate education in Health Care Policy at Cornell University, she was awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Grant to Zambia. Clara was based in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, where she conducted a research project on disruptions in contraceptive supply chains. She decided to apply for a Fulbright to Zambia after participating in a study abroad program in Lusaka during college. In the future, Clara hopes to pursue masters and doctoral degrees focusing on the current structures of and presence of neocolonialism in global health aid and international development.

Dr. Ana Sánchez-Muñoz is Professor in the Department of Chicana/o Studies and in the Department of Linguistics/TESL at California State University, Northridge (CSUN). Dr. Sánchez-Muñoz holds a B.A. in Philology (University of Salamanca, Spain), a Master’s and a Ph.D. in Linguistics (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California) and a second Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain). Her research interests include heritage and minority languages, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and situations of language contact. In particular, she has published extensively on Spanish as a U.S. heritage language. Her research examines how Spanish is used and maintained by heritage speakers in the U.S. Dr. Sánchez-Muñoz has received several academic awards, including a U.S. Fulbright Scholar Award to Uruguay in 2021.

Anne Schiller is Professor of Anthropology and Fulbright Faculty Liaison at George Mason University. Her research interests are identity, social groups and movements, and religion. She has conducted fieldwork in Italy and in Indonesia, including with the support of Fulbright. Her two most recent books are Merchants in the City of Art: Work, Identities and Change in a Florentine Neighborhood (Toronto, 2016) and Commercianti a Firenze (Carocci editore, 2016). Her scholarly publications and contributions to knowledge regarding Florence’s historic center were recognized with the 2018 Sopravissuti del San Lorenzo Association Award. In 2016, she was Fulbright-Fondazione CON IL SUD Visiting Professor at the Università del Salento, Puglia. She currently conducts field research based in Lecce and Brindisi.

After teaching in India through a Fulbright fellowship (2020-21) and participating in the University of Maryland, Baltimore Global Health Summit (2021), Dhruv Shah knew he needed to do something to help the COVID-19 humanitarian crisis in India. Shah, a University of Maryland School of Medicine student from the class of 2024, not only raised $4,000 to pay off COVID-related medical bills for his former students, but also secured $4.5 million worth of medical supplies and equipment from the University of Maryland Medical System. Shah has a B.S. in Molecular and Cellular Biology and a concentration in Creative Writing from the University of Connecticut. He is interested in intersections between writing, education, and community health and aspires to be an ophthalmologist and a teaching professor.

Carol Sterling has been a professional puppeteer, teaching artist, teacher trainer and arts educator for 50 years plus, as well as a Fulbright Program Specialist in Arts Education with a specialization in Educational Puppetry in Uganda (2012) and India (2015). Since her retirement in 2011 as Director of Arts Education for the Brooklyn Arts Council, she has conducted workshops for teachers, caregivers, librarians, parents, and youth throughout the United States and in 10 countries. Ms. Sterling has served in leadership positions as President of UNIMA-USA, the international organization of American puppeteers, as an Education Consultant for Puppeteers of America, Director of Education for American Council on the Arts, among others. She has authored curriculum guides and articles and is a consultant with the Jim Henson Foundation. She has a M.A. in Fine Arts and Art Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, and B.A. from Barnard College.

I am a Fulbright alumnus, graduated with Master of Science Degree in 2018. During my study, I became very passionate about effective communication in the nonprofit sector. I defended my thesis and went back to Russia to practice my communication skills and overcome challenges along the way.

Dr. Gwyneth Bravo

New York University Abu Dhabi & New York University (New York- Steinhardt) – Assistant Professor of Music (NYU Abu Dhabi) Global Network Assistant Professor of Music (NYU Steinhardt)

Gwyneth Bravo is an Assistant Professor of Music at NYU Abu Dhabi and a Global Network Assistant Professor at NYU Steinhardt. A musicologist and cellist, Bravo holds a Ph.D. in Historical Musicology from the University of California, Los Angeles and her research examines the relationship between music, politics, and philosophy in twentieth and twenty-first-century European and global contexts, with a focus on nationalism, exile, conflict, and gender studies. A Fulbright scholar to Germany, Bravo worked with the research group Exile Music at the University of Hamburg, publishing in Lebenswege von Musikerinnen im Dritten Reich und im Exil-a volume examining the impact of National Socialism, forced migration, and exile on European, women musicians during the period 1933-1945. She is the co-author of “Mortal Encounters, Immortal Rendezvous: Literary-Musical Counterpoints between Erwin Schulhoff’s Flammen and Karel Josef Beneš’s Don Juan,” which was published in the 2022 edited book New Paths in Opera: Martinů, Burian, Hába, Schulhoff, Ullmann (Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag); https://www.hollitzer.at/buch/new-paths-in-opera

Vincent L. Briley is a Lecturer and 1-on-1 Coach for the Achieving The Promise Academy (ATPA) at Montgomery College. Vincent served as an administrator and instructor at colleges in Iowa and Ohio before relocating to Maryland in August 2021. He is a proud graduate of Ohio University and the Ohio State University and is a doctoral candidate at Kansas State University. He received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Community College Faculty hosted at Jackson State University and was awarded a J. William Fulbright scholarship to research higher education in Germany. Vincent is a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. and Phi Theta Kappa honor society. Vincent continues to encourage and support others along their life-long learning journey.

Dr. John Donnellan, Associate Professor and Chair of the Management Department at NJCU School of Business, Jersey City, NJ USA. He is a three-time Fulbright Fellow scholar conducting research on cooperative education and internationalization of curriculum between Finland and USA. He is an international professor lecturing in China, England, France and Finland. Includes lecturing Cambridge and Oxford UK Universities as well as Columbia University NYC. Donnellan’s background includes executive management on Wall Street at JPMorgan and Prudential Financial. His latest research is developing the ARC model in higher education was heard on NPR Academic Minute. He also recently published a paper on “Sustainability of Internationalization in Higher Education”.

Former enlisted USMC veteran who attended college via the GI-Bill leading to a BA, MA & Ph.D. in Sociology; a MA in School Psychology; and a Ph.D. in Cultural Psychology. I was a Fulbright Scholar, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina (2009-2010); Fulbright Specialist, Minister of Interior, Republic Srpska, Bosnia (2016); and Fulbright Specialist, Universidad Autonomous Indigenous de Sinaloa, Mexico (2019)

Ana is a PhD candidate in Law at Nova School of Law, in Lisbon. She is also a Portuguese qualified lawyer with over seven years of experience in international arbitration and litigation at a leading law firm.
Ana’s research interests include international arbitration, private international law, and international commercial law. She was awarded a Fulbright Grant to study the application of the New York Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards by US courts at Columbia University for the fall of 2022.
Ana gives back to her community by acting as coach for her faculty’s Vis Moot student team, as deputy director of the Portuguese International Arbitration and Conciliation Review, and as global co-director for events at Young International Council for Commercial Arbitration.

Darlene DeMarie, Ph.D., is a Professor of Educational Psychology & the Fulbright Faculty Advisor for the University of South Florida. She was a Fulbright Scholar Awardee twice: in South Africa (2007-2009) and in Hungary (2019-2020).

Susan V. Meyers is an international leader in writing studies, having offered keynote addresses at conferences and workshops in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and she currently directs the writing program at Seattle University. Her creative work has been supported by grants from 4Culture, Artist Trust, Jack Straw, and Squaw Valley, as well as several national artist residency centers, and has been nominated for The Best American Series and several Pushcart Prizes. Her novel, Failing the Trapeze, won the Nilsen Award for a First Novel, and her field study on education in rural Mexico, Del Otro Lado: Literacy and Migration Across the U.S.-Mexico Border, was supported by grants from Fulbright, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Association of University Women.

Manfred Philipp was President of the Board of the Fulbright Association in 2018, until he resigned in December of that year. He is former Executive Director of the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences and a former Trustee of the City University of New York (CUNY). He was chair of CUNY’s University Faculty Senate in 2006-2010 and President of the German Academic Exchange Service Alumni Association of the US in 2013-2014.

Dr. Philipp is Professor Emeritus and past department chair of chemistry at Lehman College in New York and Professor Emeritus in the Biochemistry and Chemistry Doctoral Programs at the CUNY Graduate Center in Manhattan. As a Fulbright scholar in 2005, Dr. Philipp taught bioinformatics and biopharmaceutics at the Catholic University of Portugal. As a Fulbright scholar in 2012-2013, he did research on multidrug resistant bacteria at the Patan Academy of Health Sciences in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Dr. Philipp received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Northwestern University and his B.S. in Chemistry from Michigan Technological University. Dr. Philipp has been Program Director for the National Institutes of Health-supported, research-based student support programs Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS), Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC), and the High School Summer Research Apprentice Program. He was co-Program Director of the NIH-supported Bridges to the Baccalaureate at Bronx Community College and Lehman College. He has also served as national president of the MBRS/MARC Program Directors Organization.

His scientific research concentrates on protein modeling and enzyme inhibition, with emphasis on enzyme inhibitors of potential pharmaceutical value.

Mary Ellen Heian Schmider has spent much of the last decade serving the Fulbright Association. In 2012, and again in 2016, she became Executive Director, offering her services in the interim as the search committees worked to find permanent leadership for the national office. In 2019, she served as President of the Board of Directors. Additionally, most of the other years she served on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors. She led the conference in London in 2012: “Fulbrighters Minding the Gaps and Bridging Them.” In 2016, the 70th Anniversary of the Fulbright Program was celebrated with a serious look at the Challenges Ahead at the largest national conference to date. She partnered with Cultural Heritage without Borders to plan the first three Service Corps Travel opportunities in the Balkans; engaged with the International Fulbright Commission leadership in the development of Advocacy as a major initiative of the association; and in the last three J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding events, she has overseen the work of the International Selection Committees. Her background in academic administration and teaching led to emerita status as Graduate Dean and Research Officer at the Minnesota State University Moorhead. Currently, she teaches online as an Adjunct Full Professor in American History and Women’s Studies for the University of Maryland University College. Board service beyond Fulbright included nearly fourteen years on the Fortune 300 Thrivent Financial and its predecessor bodies, eight as an officer of the Board for Higher Education and Schools of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and two as chairperson of the Minnesota Humanities Commission. She has held two Senior Fulbright Lecturer Awards: People’s Republic of China, 1997, and the Republic of Macedonia, 2005-2006.

Małgorzata Monika Bonikowska is a Polish political scientist, academic teacher and government advisor. Specialist in international relations (especially of the European Union and EU Member States).

Since May 2013, President of the Centre for International Relations – the oldest Polish independent think tank specializing in foreign policy. She lectures at the European Centre of the University of Warsaw, at the Vistula University of Finance and Business and at the Korczak University. She is the co-founder and president of the THINKTANK Centre for Dialogue and Analysis. She was a member of the programme board of the Lech Wałęsa Institute. In the years 1996-1997 she was a scholarship holder of the Polish-American Fulbright Commission at Columbia University.

Dr. Panarat Rohleder received a postgraduate diploma in Organizational Leadership, University of Oxford. She earned a PhD in Organizational Leadership (academic distinction- 4.00 GPA) from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She is a member of Bouchet Honor Society. She has an MBA in Organizational Development and MS in Marketing from Johns Hopkins University. In addition, she received an M. Ed in Educational Psychology from Khon Kaen University. Currently, Dr. Rohleder is a member of the board of directors, national capital area, Fulbright Association, and an adjunct MBA faculty at Washington Adventist University. Additionally, she is the founder and president at Role Models Foundation Worldwide and a committee member for Oxford Business Alumni Network, Washington chapter. Her research focuses on business schools including senior women in leadership positions.

J. Babet Villena-Alvarez is a Fulbright scholar invited by Fulbright Poland for presentations after her summer Fulbright-Hays in 2018. She is Coordinator for USCB’s International Programs, the Beaufort College Honors, and Interim Assistant Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs. She was USCB Chair of Humanities/Fine Arts (2007-16), was awarded the Carolina Trustee Professorship in 2012 (UofSC System Board Trustees) and was the South Carolina Governor’s 2010 Professor of the Year. Past leadership roles: Program Director-Liberal Studies, then Spanish prior to 2007. From 2003-06, she was lead PI for the US Dept of Education UISFL grant to internationalize USCB curriculum. She holds graduate degrees from L’Université de Paris-IV Sorbonne (Magistère), el Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana – Madrid (Diploma de Profesor), and University of Cincinnati (Ph.D. Romance Languages, French Literature)

Anne is a Senior Lecturer/Professor at SETU (South East Technology University Ireland). Her teaching and qualitative research interests lie in the area of Transformative Learning, Educator Professional Identity and Role Engagement. Anne is an Irish Fulbright Scholar and has held research fellowships and visiting professor appointments at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; Copenhagen Business School, Denmark; Henley Management College/University of Reading, United Kingdom; and the Open University in the UK and Europe. She is a Royal Society of Arts (RSA) Fellow, CIPD Fellow, Researcher in Residence with the Teaching Council Ireland, and current President of the Irish Fulbright Alumni Association.
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Leslie A. Cordie is an Associate Professor in the Adult Education program at Auburn University and the recipient of a Fulbright Research Scholarship to the West Indies where she worked in support of an educational enhancement project. She has over 25 years combined experiences in higher education, government and military, and corporate America. Her background includes training, instructional design, program and professional development, and healthcare. Leslie holds a Ph.D. in Education, with specializations in distance learning, adult learning theory, and technical writing. She also holds an MBA, and her professional experience includes positions with the airline industry, the U.S. Air Force, and public health.

Dr. Barbara Schwartz-Bechet is the Dean of the College of Health Sciences and Education at Misericordia University. She has worked in higher education for over 25 years and received her doctorate in Applied Behavior Analysis/Emotional Disturbance from Columbia Univerity, NY, NY in 1994. She has presented at and has been a requested speaker at local, national and international conferences, universities and school systems, received three Fulbright scholarships, including a grant to review the highly regarded program for individuals with Autism, the Shafallah Center, in Doha, Qatar in 2016 and an opportunity to teach graduate course She was currently engaged as a Fulbright Chair to identify mental health currciular needs in Calgary, Canada. She is widely published and has recieved several grants.

Lin believes that community-based financial resilience is a safeguard for the instability our society is facing; to this end, Lin is building a global nonprofit movement called the Money Health Collective, a communal support system designed to relieve financial distress.

Previously, Lin was a Fulbright-Schuman grantee to the European Union, researching workforce exit risks and trends, against the backdrop of each country’s pension system. Following the grant, Lin was named a Fulbright Alumni Ambassador.

Lin is also an actuary and principal consultant for Mercer, helping multinational organizations improve employee outcomes and deploy financial wellbeing strategies. She serves on the board of several nonprofit organizations in Los Angeles, and she is a Community Champion for the Global Shapers Community, an initiative of the World Economic Forum.

Dr. Alexandra Asrow, FACEP is a practicing board-certified Emergency Physician from Chicago, the Founder/Director of Emergency Medicine Global Learning Exchange (EMGLEX), and the Chair of the American College of Emergency Physicians Ambassador Program, as well as the lead ambassador to Italy. She is an assistant professor at University of Chicago, and University of Illinois at Chicago. She graduated from Brown University with honors, The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, and Amita Resurrection Emergency Medicine Residency. She has participated in multiple international exchanges leading to and inspiring her work today, including at the University of Bologna, Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, Umberto Primo Hospital in Rome, and was awarded and completed her Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Torino. She firmly believes in the power of international exchange to change the world.

Alyscia Batista is a fourth year student at Brown University studying Immunobiology and Public Health. She has worked as a medical interpreter and clinical volunteer. Originally from Peru, she is interested in pursuing a career in medicine, and enjoys spending her free time in nature.

William Forys is a rising junior at Brown University concentrating in Biology and International & Public Affairs, and a summer intern at EMGLEX. Originally from Northern Virginia, he’s passionate about expanding quality healthcare access and the comparative development of global health systems.

Mikaela Lies is a 4th-year student at Loyola University Chicago studying Public Health, Biostatistics, and Spanish. She plans to graduate with her Master’s in Public health in 2024 to begin a career focused on global health research.

Dr. Cowin is a Fulbright Scholar; Assistant Professor and TESOL Practicum Coordinator at Touro University; sustainability advisor for access and equity for Computers for Schools Burundi; collaborator with Prof. Abdullah Al Ghurbani, President of Future Horizons Foundation for Translation, Training, and Development a teacher training and translation institution in Sanaa, Yemen, member of the TESOL International CALL-IS Steering Committee, co-Chair of the of the Technology Enhanced Language Learning SIG 2022 conference, conference chair of the 51st NYS TESOL conference 2021. Recent presentations focused on Computers for Schools Burundi: Gukorera Hamwe through Cultural Competency Training, Yemeni TESOL Teaching & Training for the Future: Exploring Google, Virtual Fieldtrips and Open Educational Resources (OER’s), The Metaverse: Layers, Applications, and Terminology, The Next Normal: Metaverse, Virtual Beings, AI cloning for the World Higher Education Ranking Summit (WHERS), Dubai, UAE.

Fulbright recipient (2005 USA), Prof. Abdullah Al Ghurbani, Ph.D., President of Future Horizons Foundation for Translation, Training, and Development a teacher training and translation institution in Sanaa, Yemen has 29 years of experience in the field of teaching English as a foreign/second language. He holds a Ph.D. in English Literature, English Department, College of Languages, Sana’a University and was sponsored through a Fulbright grant to acquire the SIT TESOL certification at Rennert International, New York, U.S.A, 2012.

Nancy Economou is the founder and CEO of Watts of Love, a global nonprofit bringing people the power to lift themselves out of the darkness of poverty through solar lighting and financial literacy training. Watts of Love was founded in 2013 after Nancy went on a business trip to the Philippines and saw the devastating effects of kerosene after seeing a child’s face burned. Compelled as a mother, Nancy set out to bring her patented solar lights to the nearly one billion people living in the darkness of poverty and teach financial literacy to change communities. Over the last nine years, Nancy has delivered solar lights and the Watts of Love program to 52 countries, giving 77,554 lights, and changing 542,878 lives forever.

Trangdai Glassey-Tranguyen, Ph.D. (trangdai.net) is an award-winning bilingual author who has worked to foster world peace, racial equity, cross- cultural understanding, and social justice. The founder/director of the Vietnamese Diasporas Projects, she has conducted hundreds of oral history interviews and multi-sited ethnographies on the Vietnamese diasporas in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia for nearly thirty years. She holds an M.A. in History (CSU Fullerton), M.A. in Anthropology (Stanford University), M.A. in Southeast Asian Studies, and a Ph.D. in Anthropology (UC Riverside). She has published over 3,000 poetic, creative, translation, and critical works in academic journals, K-12 texts, anthologies, and the media worldwide in English & Vietnamese. She authored seven books of poetry with translations in thirteen languages.

Prof. McDaniel has focused her career on development of environments supporting ethical interactions and transparency; human and civil rights. As a professor-researcher she also has obtained empirical data addressing ethics. She was a Fulbright Scholar and Sr. Specialist to Finland, Sweden, Tunisia & Indonesia; she is currently Project Lead on a Grant from the State Dept, addressing issues from her Fulbright Tunisia. She served as president and founding president of two Fulbright Chapters, respectively.

Dr. Roberto Rivera has focused his research on racialized governmental structures as they intersect the variables of trust in communities of color. He is committed to the advancement of Restorative Justice practices through his Holistic Policing methods. Dr. Rivera is a 2018-19 U.S. Fulbright Scholar awardee in Criminology for Jamaica. His critical criminological scholarship is unique because it is informed by his 20 years of service as a police officer. In 2008, as a law enforcement officer, Dr. Rivera presented nationally and was recognized at the U.S. Department of Justice Community Capacity Development Office annual conference in Detroit, Michigan for his Adelante Project initiative. His Master’s degree thesis appears as a chapter in Gringo Injustice: Insider Perspectives on Police, Gangs, and Law.

Bruce was a two-time Fulbright Senior Scholar to Thailand (2006-2007; 2014-2015) and is a recent ASEAN Fulbright Research Award recipient (2022). He is a lifetime member of the Fulbright Alumni Association. His Fulbright work focuses on spreading the discipline of contemporary psychology, assisting faculty with curriculum development and scholarly publishing, researching psychology infrastructure in higher education, and assessing mental health care systems and ASEAN’s critical need to train more professional psychologists. Bruce is professor emeritus of psychology and neuroscience at the State University of New York at Albany and has also held visiting appointments at a number of leading Asian institutions. He has received research grants from NSF, NIDA, NIMH, NIA and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.

Kevin was a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Thailand and Laos in 2007, has plans for another FSS project in Thailand in 2022, and is a life member of the Fulbright Alumni Association. He has broad, innovative, results-oriented leadership experiences in mission-oriented institutions. These include president of Marlboro College, president of the National Peace Corps Association, executive director of the Global Alliance for Workers and Communities and director of public policy at the Pew Charitable Trusts. Kevin has done extensive teaching and publishing as an academic practitioner. At NPCA for nearly a decade, he was the publisher of Worldview, the magazine for the Peace Corps community. Kevin has served on the boards of the American University of Afghanistan, the American University of Nigeria and Swarthmore College.

My name is David Prihoda. I am an English teacher and perpetual student from Kansas. I have a few credentials and the debt to prove it. I like words, mostly those of better writers. My drive to learn and facilitate linguistic proficiency has taken me across the globe. My presentation focuses on the rain in Malaysia, and how it continues to soak my clothes today. I hope it is useful.

Mara Rubia A de Lima, a Fulbright Scholar on Global Health at Rutgers University throughout the 2021 Fall Semester, shared local professional experiences and projects, and her Brazilian culture. She increased her comprehensive health understanding, thinking more globally, and making partnerships. Back to Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre (UFCSPA), Brazil, she teaches Pulmonology, Narrative Medicine, and Global Health. Her primary interest is chronic cough. She has 15 year experience as Principal Investigator in asthma clinical trials. She is part of the Inclusion and Diversity Committee focused on the health of people of color and Haitian immigrants. She volunteers at the Rondon Project by the Brazilian Ministry of Defense doing community service with UFCSPA students in low resource settings in the Amazon.

Brandi Peacock is a motivated self-starter with significant leadership skills developed through projects on the diverse Rutgers New Brunswick campus. She is proficient in technical writing and advanced composition skills, and also in office related programs including word processing, statistical analysis and editing. She has na American Heart Association BLS Certification and Human Subject in Research Certificatio, and is actively seeking admission to medical school. She is a Master of Biomedical Sciences, and shehas a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology. Her work expirience includes the following: Personal Care Assistant, NJ PASP/SDS Fiscal Management; Data Coordinator, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Medical Scribe, ScribeAmerica; Hospital Patient Transporter, Cooper University Hospital; Retail Sales, Gap Stores Unlimited, Cherry Hill, NJ; and Crew Member, AMC Theaters, Cherry Hill, NJ.

Dr. Sabiha Hussain is a pulmonary and critical care physician, who is head of the Interventional Pulmonary Program as well as the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program. Her clinical research is in the area of cystic fibrosis as well as environmental exposure. She has a degree by UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, Rutgers University; fellowship in Pulmonary Medicine, at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center; Residency in Pulmonary Critical Care and in Internal Medicine , at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She is a specialist in Pulmonary Disease – American Board of Internal Medicine; Internal Medicine – American Board of Internal Medicine; and Critical Care Medicine.

Sarah has worked in the U.S. and abroad as an educator, coach, producer, and consultant. She is the creator of a storytelling-based model that pairs the production of documentary films with community-led workshops to support communities in confronting complex topics, which she has implemented via 10+ U.S. Department of State grants in Colombia and Zambia, and most recently, in partnership with Hand2Mouth Theatre in Namibia, Peru, Georgia and Ethiopia. As a teacher in the Bronx, New York, and in Bogotá, Colombia on a Fulbright ETA, she advocated for students with disabilities and has taught graduate courses in Special Education. Sarah served as an in-house Instructional Coach for a network within Chicago Public Schools, leads DEI facilitation, and works as a change management consultant.

Jonathan Walters is the founding Artistic Director of Hand2Mouth Theatre with a long history of working internationally on cultural exchange through theater arts. He has been working with the U.S. Department of State posts to tour theater work and create new works on-site with local community groups. He was awarded a U.S. Alumni TIES grant for a project called “Transforming Conflict Through Theatre” – to work with the head of Portland State University’s Conflict Resolution department to embed best practices in community theater story-sharing workshops. These workshops are the centerpiece of 10+ projects funded by U.S. Embassy PAS Annual Program grants around the world.

Kathleen Gallagher is an Associate Professor of Graduate International Relations (St. Mary’s University, San Antonio TX) and a Visiting Scholar at the South Asia Institute (University of Texas, Austin). Kathleen has conducted extensive research in Nepal as a cultural anthropologist exploring processes of exclusion with marginalized communities (squatters, refugees, asylees and slave/ex-slave populations). Her vocational interests are rooted in a desire to provide voice to stories and struggles that might otherwise go unheard; her research has been published in a diverse array of journals. Kathleen completed her undergraduate work in philosophy and psychology (University of Scranton), her master’s degree in sociology (Tribhuvan University, Nepal), and her doctoral studies in anthropology (Harvard University). She is a recipient of the Fulbright (IIE) and Fulbright-Hays awards.

Divina Akuma recently earned her M.A. in International Relations (St. Mary’s University) and is currently working with Afghani refugees as a Refugee Case Worker for Catholic Charities, Fort Worth. She is particularly interested in the empowerment of marginalized communities, including in her native Kenya.

Lusa Tshibangu recently graduated with her M.A. in International Relations and J.D. (St. Mary’s University) and is currently pursuing a master’s in transnational crime and justice from UNICRI. Lusa’s work and research focuses on international human rights with a special interest in the plight of communities in her parent’s home country of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Minal Hajratwala’s time as a 2010 Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellow in Mumbai led to two books: a groundbreaking anthology that she edited, Out! Stories from the New Queer India, and her own poetry collection, Bountiful Instructions for Enlightenment. While in India she also co-founded a poetry publishing collective and collaborated on a film that was shown at documenta13. She has coached authors, including Fulbrighters, for more than a decade and is the founder of the Unicorn Authors Club (www.unicornauthors.club). Her other books include a travel guidebook, Moon Fiji, and an award-winning nonfiction epic, Leaving India: My Family’s Journey From Five Villages to Five Continents, which was called “incomparable” by Alice Walker and “searingly honest” by the Washington Post. She is a graduate of Stanford University and was a National Arts Journalism Program fellow at Columbia University.

Dr. Annette Marie Jones is the principal of St. John Regional Catholic School in Frederick, Maryland. Dr. Jones most recently served as the Assistant Director for School Leadership at the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA). She serves on the Friends of Fulbright Finland (FoFF) Alumni Council and is Vice-President of the National Chapter of Capitol Area (NCCA), Fulbright Association in Washington, DC. Dr. Jones has participated in numerous international programs, including the Senator J. William Fulbright Scholarship Program to Finland, United States Department of State Fellowship to Argentina, and the Global Exchange Initiative to China. Dr. Annette Marie Jones holds a doctoral degree in Educational Administration and Supervision and a specialist in education degree in School Superintendency from Ball State University.

Dr. Mukupa holds a Ph.D. in international development from the State University of New York at Buffalo. In addition, she has two master’s, one in Global Gender Studies and the other in Business Administration. (MBA). She was a Fulbright Scholar in Tajikistan and a Peace Corps Volunteer in North Macedonia.
She is the outgoing president of the Crystal City Pentagon Rotary Club and serves on the board for Margaret McNamara Education Grants at the World Bank.
Dr. Mukupa was born in Zambia, raised in Japan and Belgium, and is now a U.S. citizen who speaks nine languages. Currently, she serves as president of the Crystal City-Pentagon Rotary International.

Julia Pataky is the Education Outreach Coordinator at the Public Diplomacy Section of the U.S. Embassy Vienna. A native of Vienna, Julia embarked on her journey as an Austrian Fulbright student in fall of 2018 to pursue her MA in intercultural and international communication at American University’s School of International Service in Washington, DC. During her time in DC, she contributed to the strategic implementation of the European Commission’s foreign policy instruments at the EU Delegation to the U.S. Julia has presented her research on U.S. & EU public diplomacy strategies at numerous conferences, including the International Studies Association Annual Convention. Before returning to Vienna in late 2020, Julia worked at the Goethe-Institut, in Kansas City, MO.

Hannes Richter is a scholar-practitioner at the Austrian Embassy in Washington, DC, where he also serves as the Deputy Director of the Austrian Press and Information Service in the United States. His work focuses on public diplomacy, communications, Austrian-American relations, as well as on the determinants of support for liberal democracy. He is a Senior Research Fellow with the Austrian Marshall Plan Center for European Studies at The University of New Orleans, and previously was an Austrian Marshall Plan Fellow at UC Berkeley and a visiting lecturer at Free University Berlin’s John F. Kennedy Center for North American Studies.

He earned a Master’s in Political Management from The George Washington University, and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from The University of New Orleans, with undergraduate work completed at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

Masha Ryskin is a Russian-born printmaker, painter, and installation artist. Her work has been exhibited nationally and Internationally. She holds a BFA from Rhode esland School of Design and an MFA from the University of Michigan. Ryskin is a recipient of numerous grants, including two Fulbright Fellowships and the Rhode Island Fellowship in Printmaking and Drawing. Her work has been reviewed in a number of publications, including the New York Times.

She has collaborated with a number of artists, including Yuko Kimura, printmaker from Cleveland, OH, and most recently with Serge Marchetta, a mixed-media artist from Montreal. Together, Marchetta and Ryskin have exhibited in the United States, Canada, Israel, and Europe.

Ryskin is currently Associate Professor at Rhode Island School of Design.

Juhee Lee-Hartford is a Korean-born American architect who has been awarded multiple fellowships for her research and writing, including the Fulbright fellowship, the MacDowell Fellowship, and a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. She is the founding and managing partner of Hudson Valley-based River Architects PLLC, an architectural practice dedicated to Passive House, Net Zero, and sustainable design. Lee-Hartford is currently completing a nonfiction book, “Dwelling Under the Influence,” an exploration of the way Koreans used to live—and how they live now.

Dr. Gwyneth Bravo

New York University Abu Dhabi & New York University (New York- Steinhardt) – Assistant Professor of Music (NYU Abu Dhabi) Global Network Assistant Professor of Music (NYU Steinhardt)

Gwyneth Bravo is an Assistant Professor of Music at NYU Abu Dhabi and a Global Network Assistant Professor of Music at NYU Steinhardt. A musicologist and cellist, Bravo holds a Ph.D. in Historical Musicology from the University of California, Los Angeles and her research examines the relationship between music, politics, and philosophy in twentieth and twenty-first-century European and global contexts, with a focus on nationalism, exile, conflict, and gender studies. A Fulbright scholar to Germany, Bravo worked with the research group Exile Music at the University of Hamburg, publishing in Lebenswege von Musikerinnen im Dritten Reich und im Exil-a volume examining the impact of National Socialism, forced migration, and exile on European, women musicians during the period 1933-1945. Bravo is the co-author of “Mortal Encounters, Immortal Rendezvous: Literary-Musical Counterpoints between Erwin Schulhoff’s Flammen and Karel Josef Beneš’s Don Juan,” which was published recently in New Paths in Opera: Martinů, Burian, Hába, Schulhoff (eds.) Kelly St. Pierre and Helena Spurná (Hollitzer, 2022). https://www.hollitzer.at/buch/new-paths-in-opera