by Cara Price, National Security Language Initiative for Youth to Moldova, 2016

“This is you,” she said, pointing to bug-eyed Professor Trelawney, the focal point of my Harry Potter…

by Julie Ammons, Critical Language Scholarship to Russia, 2016

#StudyAbroadBecause

From Fulbrighter to Founder

By Pauline Eveillard, Fulbright U.S. Student

by Jessye Kass, Fulbright U.S. Student to Thailand, 2013–2014

Lizards in Thailand were small, harmless creatures that scrambled around my bedroom; geckos were a foot long…

Addicted

by Agnes Lux, International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP)

by Leona Amosah, Critical Language Scholarship to Russia, 2016

We sit in Sovok, the café all of the adolescents of Nizhny Novgorod frequent. I sit across from her, my fair…

by Colette Ghunim, Gilman Scholar

by DJ Invisible, American Music Abroad

I have been spinning records since I was 18 years old. I went to college honed my craft spinning parties in dorm lobbies, frat houses, and student unions. Four years…

by Brooke Burrows, Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Program (CBYX)

Elke Oberfrank decided to take a chance on me. I was a 15-year-old American whose dyed red hair was as vivid as her thickly smeared eyeliner was dark. I was an exchange student six weeks into my stay in…

by Linda Austin, Fulbright U.S. Scholar to Burma, 2015

Let me tell you the dirty secret about the Fulbright that no one wants you to