A Conversation with Current & Former Fulbrighters
Please join us on Wednesday, January 12, 12:30 - 1:30 pm CT for a special panel discussion about the Fulbright US Student Program with current and former Fulbrighters.
Each panelist will share about their Fulbright experience, their time in their Fulbright host country, and the ways in which their Fulbright experience has shaped their trajectory afterwards.
After a moderated discussion, there will be open Q&A, so bring your questions!
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Panelists
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Joe Joseph graduated from UChicago in 2017 with a degree in Economics and Human Rights and subsequently received a Fulbright Scholarship to serve as an English Teaching Assistant in Madrid, Spain. Over his three years in Madrid, he worked various roles in the educational sector in addition to teaching, including regional mentor for the Fulbright program, educational organizer through Intersect Madrid, and intercultural facilitator for Tufts-Skidmore Spain. Recently, he joined the team at Global Citizen Year, a global education nonprofit, as an Education Pioneers Fellow. He currently calls San Francisco home, where he's still searching for the best place to get Spanish tortilla. |
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Elizabeth Adetiba is a doctoral student and National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. Currently, her dissertation examines the presence and impact of anti-Black sentiment in the medical scholarship concerning the origins of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Prior to pursuing her doctoral studies, Elizabeth was a Fulbright grantee to New Zealand, and worked as a journalist, with pieces published at HuffPost, Slate, The Nation, and The Black Youth Project. |
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Nick Ornstein is a Fulbright Research Scholar in Media Informatics under Professor Albrecht Schmidt at the University of Munich in Munich, Germany. He is currently investigating electrical muscle stimulation interfaces for motor learning. He graduated with a BS in Neuroscience and a minor in Media Arts and Design from UChicago in 2021, where he conducted somatosensory neuroscience research under Professor Bensmaia. During his time as a student in the College, he worked as a civic technologist as the Internal Chair of the IOP’s TechTeam, served as a Managing Editor for Science in Society Review, and played keyboards in indie rock and funk bands on campus. |
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Sunit Singh is a Fulbright alumnus and teaches in the College at the University of Chicago. A historian of the British Empire in India, Sunit undertook archival research in India on a Fulbright-IIE (2011), with a brief sojourn in Germany on a Fulbright-Hays (2012). |
