2024 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 20 Fulbright U.S. Student Program alumni each year to serve as representatives, recruiters and voices 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 assist 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.
Each Alumni Ambassador has an email contact. Reach out by finding their emails in the bios below.
If you are interested in inviting an Alumni Ambassador to attend an in-person or virtual event to share about their Fulbright experience, please contact us at fbstudent.ambassadors@iie.org
Jacqueline Aguirre De La O
Fulbright English Teaching Assistant
South Korea, 2021-2022
U.S. Institutions: University of California, Riverside
Esther Almazán
Fulbright U.S. Student in Literature (Playwriting)
Ireland, 2022-2023
U.S. Institutions: Pima Community College; College of Santa Fe; Prescott College; Arizona State University; University of Arizona
Austin Connors
Fulbright U.S. Student in Public Policy
Paraguay, 2022-2023
U.S. Institution: Duke University
Geghie Davis-Tillie
Fulbright U.S. Student in Design
UK, 2020-2021
U.S. Institutions: Pellissippi State Community College; University of Tennessee
Aida Dodoo
Fulbright English Teaching Assistant
Madagascar, 2022-2023
U.S. Institution: Salisbury University
Juan Gonzalez
Fulbright English Teaching Assistant
Argentina, 2022-2023
U.S. Institutions: San Joaquin Delta College; California State University, Long Beach
Carlo Juntilla
Fulbright English Teaching Assistant
Taiwan, 2021-2022
U.S. Institutions: Gonzaga University; Loyola Marymount University
Rachael Lau
Fulbright U.S. Student in Earthquake and Disaster Engineering
Nepal, 2022-2023
U.S. Institution: Duke University
Savanna Lim
Fulbright English Teaching Assistant
Turkey, 2021-2022
U.S. Institution: Cornell University
Virgil Parker
Fulbright U.S. Student in Economic Trade and Social Impact
Canada, 2021-2022
U.S. Institution: Howard University
Amanda Pascali
Fulbright U.S. Student in the Arts
Italy, 2022-2023
U.S. Institution: University of Houston
Sylvia Pere
Fulbright U.S. Student in Biology
Kenya, 2022-23
U.S. Institutions: Citrus Community College; Mt. San Antonio College; University of California, Berkeley
Ksenia Polyarskaya
Fulbright English Teaching Assistant
Kazakhstan, 2022-2023
U.S. Institutions: University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
Jesse Rocha
Fulbright U.S. Student in the History of Art
Brazil, 2022-2023
U.S. Institutions: University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Riverside
Taliah Rodriguez
Fulbright English Teaching Assistant
Ghana, 2022-2023
U.S. Institution: Arizona State University
Tremaine Smith
Fulbright English Teaching Assistant
Sri Lanka, 2022-2023
U.S. Institutions: Brandeis University; Middlebury Institute of International Studies
Alexandra St Tellien
Fulbright English Teaching Assistant
Côte d'Ivoire, 2021-2022
U.S. Institutions: University of Florida; Georgia State University
Lavinia Taumoepeau-Latu
Fulbright U.S. Student in the Humanities
Tonga, 2022-2023
U.S. Institutions: University of Utah; Georgetown University
Lyndsie Whitehead
Fulbright U.S. Student in Higher Education
India, 2022-2023
U.S. Institutions: Edinboro University of Pennsylvania; University of Pittsburgh; Howard University
Nimra Zubair
Fulbright English Teaching Assistant
Bulgaria, 2022-2023
U.S. Institutions: Houston Community College; University of Houston