2018 Fulbright Alumni Ambassadors
The Fulbright U.S. Student Alumni Ambassador Program was established in 2008 to identify, train and engage a select group of approximately 15 Fulbright U.S. Student Program alumni each year to serve as representatives, recruiters and spokespersons for the Fulbright Program. They are selected annually through recommendations from Fulbright Commissions and U.S. Embassy staff, area managers, the Fulbright Student Program Outreach Division and are approved by the sponsor of the Fulbright Program, the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Fulbright Alumni Ambassadors come from an array of different ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds, states, fields of study, institutions; they have participated in the Fulbright U.S. Student Program in all world areas.
Fulbright Alumni Ambassadors represent the program's rich diversity and play a key role in increasing knowledge about Fulbright opportunities. They provide testimonials about their Fulbright experiences at conferences and campus presentations and offer application tips in written articles, video and podcast interviews, webinars and at special events throughout the United States. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program relies on the Fulbright Alumni Ambassadors to mentor potential applicants, sharing what a Fulbright grant is really like, along with how to address the challenges of living abroad successfully and how best to meet the Fulbright Program's ultimate goal—to increase mutual understanding between the people of the U.S. and the people of other countries.
Paul Adolphsen
Fulbright U.S. Student in Theater Directing
South Africa, 2015-2016
Michael Auten
Fulbright U.S. Student in Economics
Ukraine, 2016-2017
Erika Boeing
Fulbright U.S. Student in Energy
The Netherlands, 2014-2015
George Bogden
Fulbright U.S. Student in Public Policy
Kosovo, 2015-2016
Cheyenne Boyce
Fulbright English Teaching Assistant
Malaysia, 2014-2015
Rachel E. Brooks
Fulbright English Teaching Assistant
South Korea, 2014-2016
Ryan Fan
Fulbright U.S.Student in Linguistics Morocco, 2016-2017
Joshua Frank
Fulbright English Teaching
Malaysia, 2016-2017
Jonathan Freeman
Fulbright U.S. Student
in History
South Africa, 2016-2017
Emily Gerdin
Fulbright U.S. Student in
Psychology
Israel, 2014-2015
David Hamburger
Fulbright-Nehru
English Teaching Assistant
India, 2016-2017
Jeri Katherine Howell
Fulbright English
Teaching Assistant
Costa Rica, 2016-2017
Christine Keung
Fulbright U.S. Student in
Environmental Studies
China, 2014-2015
Maria LaBouyer
Fulbright U.S. Student
in Medicine Sciences
United Kingdom, 2015-2016
Kevin McLean
Fulbright-National
Geographic Storytelling Fellow
Malaysia and Ecuador, 2016-2017
Garrett Nagaishi
Fulbright U.S. Student
in History
United Kingdom, 2015-2016
Katharina-Victoria Perez-Hammerle
Fulbright U.S. Student in Environmental Studies
Chile, 2016-2017
Vince Redhouse
Fulbright U.S. Student
in Philosophy
Australia, 2015-2016
Rachel Rettaliata
Fulbright U.S.
Student in History
Moldova, 2016-2017
Valencia Richardson
Fulbright U.S.
Student in Political Science
Mexico, 2016-2017
Claudia Severino
Fulbright English
Teaching
Colombia, 2015-2016
Catherine Tabor
Fulbright
English Teaching
Austria, 2016-2017