Montano’s Fulbright research on single mothers in the Philippines set her on a path of choosing film and television projects that amplify a broad range of voices.
Sumalee Montano
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Pamela Scheffler
Fulbright experiences in India and Indonesia help Hawaii Community College professor to internationalize her teaching and campus
Aria Mia Loberti
A Fulbright prepared this breakout actress and disability advocate to star in Netflix’s All the Light We Cannot See.
Rhonda Collier
Tuskegee University global office director says “Fulbright is a vehicle to hone world-class scholars through cultural immersion and the opportunity to represent the best of U.S. culture abroad.”
Jonathan GS Koppell
President Jonthan Koppell of Montclair State University views the Fulbright Program as supporting more students with access to international experience.
Ruth J. Simmons
HBCU Alumna and University President says Fulbright was “the most enlightening and empowering experience of my young life.”
Yoko Kamikawa
Yoko Kamiwaka credits her Fulbright experience in the United States with inspiring her career in public service and government.
Megha Rajagopalan
Megha Rajagopalan harnessed geospatial technology and old-fashioned reporting to expose the scale of the internment of Uighur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang Province. For this piece of groundbreaking journalism Rajagopalan was awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting.
Leila Cobo
Leila Cobo is a classically trained concert pianist, a novelist, and perhaps her country’s preeminent journalist focusing on Latin Music. As Latin Music has increasingly taken over the U.S. charts, Cobo has been there to document its meteoric rise.
Sophie V. Vandebroek
Fulbrighter and innovator has held leadership roles at multinational companies and holds 14 United States patents.