Olympic swimmer turned lawyer champions human rights for athletes.
Nikki Dryden
Country: Europe and Eurasia
Composer Brings World Music Influence to Concert, Film, Video Games, and Opera
Christopher Tin, two-time Grammy-winning Fulbrighter, composed a new ending to Puccini’s unfinished opera Turandot, performed at the Kennedy Center.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
‘Fulbright is where I was born as a writer’: Tony award-winning playwright playwright reflects on his journey to his Broadway debut
Aria Mia Loberti
A Fulbright prepared this breakout actress and disability advocate to star in Netflix’s All the Light We Cannot See.
Joseph Hill
Dr. Joseph Hill is a leading authority on an African American variety of American Sign Language and an advocate for education, culture, and language of Black Deaf people.
Ángel Cabrera
Ángel Cabrera serves as the president of the Georgia Institute of Technology, the institution that hosted him when he first came to the United States as a Fulbrighter from Spain.
Hunter Mack
After graduating from Virginia State University, a historically black university, engineering student Hunter Mack spent a year as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in the Southern Bohemian region of the Czech Republic. He discusses the powerful connections he was able to make with students and their community by through shared family experiences and mutual interests.
Manuel T. Pacheco
Dr. Manuel T. Pacheco’s path to U.S. higher education leader could be considered “nontraditional.” He was the son of migrant farm workers, became the first in his family to attend college, graduated from a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI), and earned a Fulbright U.S. Student award to France.
Mildred García
A first-generation college graduate, Dr. García was raised in Brooklyn, New York, by parents who migrated from Puerto Rico to work in factories and provide a better life for their family. They emphasized the importance of education, telling Dr. García and her four siblings, “the only inheritance a poor family can leave you is a good education.” These words have shaped her life.
Sophie V. Vandebroek
Dr. Sophie V. Vandebroek has held leadership roles at multinational companies including IBM, Xerox, and IDEXX Laboratories, and holds 14 United States patents. Throughout her impressive career, she has always emphasized the benefits of working with diverse and entrepreneurial colleagues from around the world.