fulbrightedge CELEBRATING 37 YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE FULBRIGHT PROGRAM | 1977-2014 VOLUME 1 ISSUE 11 FEBRUARY-MARCH 2014 Support Fulbright Funding – Say No to $30.5 million cut!

Help prevent an un- levels of public service, business, academia, and more. These com- 3. Engage Your Social Media. Ukraine precedented $30.5 By Isaac Webbs million cut to the bined efforts over the next six Use #SaveFulbright on our Face- 2013-2014 Fulbrighter in Kyiv. months will increase ledgislators book, Twitter or Linkedin pages Fulbright Program! U.S. Embassy staff in Kyiv like to describe the knowledge of our programs to demonstrate your support. By Stephen Reilly progression of events in Ukraine over the past impact and hopefully stem the three months as a “drip-drip:” tensions escalate impending cuts. 4. Become More Involved With Yes, you read that correctly. slowly, leaving everyone glued to twitter feeds The Fulbright Association. The President’s budget request and news channels waiting for day that the lev- The larger and more vocal our includes a massive cut of $30.5 Sign the Save ies finally burst. Drips frequently take the form organization, the more people million or roughly 13.5% to the Fulbright.org petition of repressions of journalists and free speech know about our positive, lifelong Fulbright Program. This would now! advocates. As a journalist, each drip highlights impact across each sector, each represent a unprecedented re- the importance of my job as a Fulbrighter: I continent, and each demograph- duction in the number of grants What You Can Do work to ensure that accurate information is free- ic. We are working to address the and the U.S. commitment to the About It Now ly disseminated to all corners of Ukraine. near term budget crisis while Fulbright program. As members I planned on using my Fulbright grant to speak 1. Sign the Petition. building a longer term effort to of the alumni community we with Ukrainians about the importance of the Sign the SaveFulbright.org broaden our advocacy efforts on must act NOW to prevent these freedom of speech. However, it has been the petition to let President Obama, a more proactive basis. We need cuts from passing the final bud- will of Ukrainian journalists over the past three key Cabinet leaders and Congress your continued support to build get. Members of the appropria- months that has reinvigorated my own commit- know how valuable Fulbright is to a stronger foundation to help tions committees in Congress are ment to fight for free speech. I have witnessed the world and why cutting funds preserve the program. Encourage now discussing this funding so we gross violations of freedom of speech in Kyiv now, when international tensions Universities and fellow alumni to must voice our strong opposition and elsewhere in Ukraine. Former President are at a peak, would not be in join or re-join in order to save to these prospective cuts. Yanukovich’s regime routinely attacked journal- our country’s best interest. Over funding to the program or con- ists in Kyiv. Now, in Crimea, journalists face the 20,000 signatures have been col- tinue the lifelong commitment to The President’s request for the same dangers, this time at the hands of Russian lected but we need all Fulbright the ideals of Fulbright. Department of State’s Fiscal Year “self-defense” soldiers. But Ukrainian journalists alumni and friends of Fulbright to 2015 budget is available HERE have refused to give in to these campaigns of support this effort immediately to (refer to pages 831-832 for educa- intimidation, boldly pursuing the truth despite have the most impact! tional and cultural exchange pro- receiving nearly constant threats. grams). The Congressional Budget “It is critical the voices On February 18 the flood we’d been expecting 2. Write To Your Elected Officials Justification is availableHERE . of the American and for months finally breached the levies. Yanu- Directly. international alumni kovich’s violent crackdown claimed the lives Get on your computer and draft We are building a plan of action and supporters of the of dozens of protesters and activists standing an email, letter, tweet, or other and advocacy platform for the fu- Fulbright program on Kyiv’s Independence Square. This hit close means of communication, to key ture. By signing our petition and come out in force to to home: two of my close friends were beaten policy makers in Washington; contacting your congressman you support this effort!.” unconsciousness by riot police. An unnamed outlining both the diplomatic will be part of our ongoing efforts hero carried them away from the front lines and and economic benefits of your to not only preserve and advocate John Vogel, President, through the sights of snipers perched on build- Fulbright experience. Austerity for Fulbright funding but also to Board of Directors, ings nearby. of diplomacy should not be a help bring greater awareness of Fulbright Association. But rather than discouraging Fulbrighters liv- Congressional policy. While ev- the impact the Program has in the ing in Ukraine, the tragedies of the Euromaidan ery letter counts, reaching out to world. Our grass roots efforts will movement has reminded us of our mission, members on the Appropriations continue to engage thousands which is to share values and build intercultural Subcommittees as well as your of members at the local level understanding. elected representatives is partic- through our chapters. Our grass In Crimea, the drip-drip analogy is again per- ularly important. Click here to tops effort will engage alumni tinent. With each drip, each bout of violence learn more about how to contact who have reached the highest against journalists and protesters, we’re remind- those lawmakers directly. ed that a second flood may decimate Ukraine. I, however, take solace knowing that no flood can wash away Ukrainians’ desire for a democratic * Have something newsworthy? Email [email protected] future free from corruption and tyranny.1 1 Teaching Arbitration in Ukraine

I received an invitation to give a questions, and then open the floor remained with us. Already we lecture in the Department of Pri- for discussion. I began with brief thought of a possible vate International Law, Institute comments about studying law in return, due to the fine reception in of International Relations,Taras the United States and then pro- Kyiv and initial acquaintance with Shevchenko National University ceeded to the principal subject of Lviv’s history, beauty, cuisine, Ital- of Kyiv, a 177-year-old university international commercial arbitra- ian renaissance architecture, Euro- named for a person of renown tion. It worked! pean flair, fashion and culture. in Ukrainian cultural history. I The students asked excellent My first stop in Krakow was the declined due to insufficient time questions on international arbi- law school at historic Jagiello- to prepare, but plans to visit the tration, legal studies in the United nian University, a short walk in Roy B. Gonas is a founding officer Institute remained, along with the States, and its jurisprudence. It the city’s old section where we of the International Law Section of goal of conveying the interest of seemed the bell sounded quite stayed. The university’s origin the Florida Bar. In 1978 he started Florida International University’s soon, but they were not finished. is traced to 1364. The main law the instate international law sem- College of Law in possible collab- Students lined up in the aisle to facility is a grand nine- teenth inar series for the Bar and created oration between students and ask more questions. I was happy century neo-Gothic building. I the first twoseminars. He is a faculty of both institutions. to accommodate. After the lecture was received by the immediate graduate of Cumberland School of I was happy to carry the mes- we were hosted by two young past dean and also spoke with a Law, Samford University, and also sage. In Kyiv, the second full day lawyers who had graduated from professor who recently added an studied international law in Lon- into our journey, we were warmly the Institute. They were coaches emphasis on international com- don, England, and at The Hague received by a young, impressive of a pre-moot student arbitration mercial arbitration. A second pos- Academy of International Law. He law professor in the Institute. team, although arbitration was itive response was received with is an arbitrator. Others soon joined. An older law not yet taught there. Curriculum regard to collaboration with the professor approached me- quite and the team’s strengths were College of Law atFlorida Interna- Let us start at the beginning. face to face-in a moment’s time discussed. The visit ended with tional University; the third was in Even when speaking with peo- and introduced himself stating, another meeting with the host Copenhagen. Soon after our re- ple in the United States having “I have given you my class. You professor. There remained no turn home, a request arrived from advanced academic degrees, have one hour, twenty minutes.” doubt of the Institute’s desire to Lviv for my curriculum vitae. Later I including lawyers, it needs to be My “diplomatic hat” straightened reach out to western universities, received an invitation to teach and said Ukraine is not Russia. It is not further. “Thank you,” I said. an impression reinforced by com- was given the discretion to select even in Russia. Adopting words Fortunately, my host professor ments this year when I returned. dates and conduct a course on in- from a Ukrainian jurist, “Ukraine overheard and certainly knew Lecturing in universities has fre- ternational commercial arbitration is a new country starting in1991.” what was planned. He immedi- quently been an enjoyable experi- in the Department of European Those few words reveal pride ately requested I address three ence for me. Law, Faculty of International and independence. Ukraine is a areas, with the principal one being We left Kyiv hopeful the faculty Relations, Ivan Franko National beautiful country in Eastern Eu- international commercial arbitra- and students shared our enjoy- University of Lviv (named after rope with a difficult past, growing tion. We then proceeded down ment of the visit. Beautiful, historic another prominent Ukrainian cul- intelligentsia, fascinating culture, the hallway to the lecture room, Lviv was our next stop, with no tural icon). The university is now agricultural and manufacturing carrying on a conversation while intention to discuss academic celebrating its 350th anniversary. industries and is a signatory to the another part of my brain was seek- matters. We were received by the Two weeks of teaching and two New York Convention. The coun- ing to organize an eighty-minute city’s “number one citizen,” as I was days of free time were planned. try’s importance, in large part, is presentation. told this year in the mayor’s office. In December 2010, I sent greet- due to its geographic location We were introduced to a near-ca- As was often the case, we were ings to our former host in Kyiv and natural resources. Strong, pacity audience of advanced level asked how our trip was going. I indicating I would be spending opposing political factionsleave its law students. mentioned our experience at the time in the spring of 2011 at the future uncertain. The elevated lecture hall in the University of Kyiv and was asked University of Lviv and asked if we My wife and I visited Ukraine, modern building was accommo- whether I had previously lectured. could possibility meet there. With- Poland and Denmark in 2010. I dating, and my wife and I very I shared some of my experiences; in a day I received a rather direct returned this year as an invited much appreciated the students’ in retrospect, an opening to more request to change my schedule in lecturer at two Ukrainian univer- respectful demeanor. As we en- of them this year. Our stay was order to accommodate another sities. What was intended as a tered, they rose. They were very most enjoyable, though far too visit to the Institute in Kyiv. I hap- holiday trip in April 2010, turned attentive and were generous with short. Lviv deserves dedicated, pily honored his request, thinking out to be more and led to much applause, an experience we at- prolonged attention, but it would be to more. Our plans included visiting tributed to protocol. Students and we had planned only a few days give one lecture. Kyiv and Lviv in the Ukraine and faculty in the Institute are fluent there and then departed to the Krakow, Poland, concluding with in English. My plan was to speak better- known, historic city of Kra- To be continued in April issue. a few days in Copenhagen hosted for approximately forty minutes, kow, Poland. Old Krakow is beau- by a Danish lawyer and his wife. plant a “seed” or two to prompt tiful, but the thought of Ukraine Two days before our departure,

2 Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Fulbright Association Assists Board elections Fulbright Legacy Lectures in UK

Roth Endowment Lectureship growing into a On May 23, at Senator Ful- Professorship, amidst Fulbright bright’s alma mater Pembroke studies and research. College, Oxford, Professor The inaugural lecture was Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia Uni- delivered at Oxford in May 2011 versity, Nobel Prize in Economics by then-professor Anne-Marie (2001) and one of the world’s Slaughter of Princeton’s Wood- most distinguished developmen- row Wilson School, freshly re- tal economists, will deliver the turned to academic life after two fourth annual Fulbright Legacy years as Director of Policy and Lecture. Prof. Emma Rothschild Plans for the State Department of Cambridge will already have (Dr. Slaughter now heads the The Fulbright Board re-elected leading rebuilding efforts for given the second lecture in the New America Foundation). Tom Healy for a third term as the downtown arts community. 2014 series at the University of In May 2012, the program ex- chairman and elected Betty Healy studied philosophy at Edinburgh on May 21, speaking panded to three sites and a mod- Castor vice chair, succeeding Harvard and received his M.F.A. of Internationalism in History. Dr. el took form as the University of Susan Ness. in creative writing from Colum- Stiglitz’ second lecture will take Edinburgh and Kings College in The Fulbright Board was estab- bia University. place at Kings College London London joined Pembroke; fol- lished by the U.S. Congress in Betty Castor is the former in the fall. low up graduate seminars were 1961 to select Fulbright award President of the University of The Legacy Lectures grew out added. The second speaker in recipients, set policies, and South Florida in Tampa, Florida, of a discussion between Ox- 2012 was Ambassador Thomas publish an annual report. The where she served as President ford dons, the US-UK Fulbright A. Pickering, a much-honored Fulbright Program, sponsored from 1994 until 1999. Previous- Commission, and the Washing- US diplomat who in retirement by the State Department, is ly, she was the Florida Commis- ton-based Lois Roth Endow- is endeavoring to remind the considered America’s “flagship sioner of Education for seven ment. This steering committee world that wars are not justified international exchange pro- years and the first woman ever was convoked by UK Pembroke until diplomacy fails, hence that gram.” elected to the Florida Cabinet. alumnus Brian Wilson, admirer diplomacy must be strength- Fulbright grants have funded Castor also served as President of the Senator. Wilson was in- ened and fully exploited before 325,000 participants in more and CEO of the National Board tent on supporting Pembroke’s military force is envisaged. He than 180 countries to study, for Professional Teaching Stan- expansion and ultimately the examined diplomatic problems teach, conduct research, and dards, and most recently as the addition of a Fulbright Professor- “From the Pillars of Hercules to find “solutions to shared inter- Executive Director of the Patel ship, joining the time-honored the Hindu Kush.” national challenges.” Center for Global Solutions Harmsworth (1922) and Eastman The 2013 lectures brought US Tom Healy is a writer and poet. at USF. She is a former state (1929) Chairs which for nearly a Nobelist in Cancer Research ‘89 His books include “Animal legislator having served three century have brought US schol- Harold Varmus, underlining a Spirits,” “What the Right Hand terms in the Florida Senate. ars into Oxford teaching and Fulbright conviction--that diplo- Knows,” which was a finalist Castor is a member of the Tam- research. macy is not done by diplomats for the 2009 L.A. Times Book pa Bay Committee on Foreign The initial meeting focused alone. Dr. Varmus, former Direc- Prize, and two forthcoming Relations and the LeRoy Collins on Pembroke’s plan as a cause tor of the National Institutes of books of essays: “Not Untrue Institute. In 2010 she received which American Rhodes, Mar- Health and Sloane-Kettering in and Not Unkind” and “The the Distinguished Woman in shall and Fulbright Scholars New York, now heads the NIH Rest of the World: Smart Power International Commerce Award might support. At that meeting, institute of Cancer Research. and Public Diplomacy.” Healy from the World Trade Center of it became obvious that large- In three lectures and seminars, teaches at New York University Tampa Bay. She began her ed- scale assistance could not be he analyzed the unchangeable and writes regularly about the ucational career as a secondary found quickly. The first-stage global nature of modern science Fulbright Program and interna- school teacher in Uganda and proposal: to draw attention to and highlighted the political tional affairs for The Huffington continues her support of the Pembroke’s role in the life of its decisions, support-systems and Post. He is a member of the Teachers for East Africa Alumni most prominent US graduate, people underlying the success of Council on Foreign Relations. Foundation. Castor received her who spent four years there as three projects in Africa, includ- Healy served on President Bachelor’s degree from Rowan a Rhodes Scholar in the 1920s. ing the giant PEPFAR project for Clinton’s Presidential Advisory University and her Master’s de- Cooperation pledged by the US- AIDS research and care. Council on HIV/AIDS and has gree from the University. UK Fulbright Commission, the In the US that same year the worked on AIDS prevention and US embassy in London, and the Roth Endowment, drawing clos- anti-poverty projects around the For further information, please Roth Endowment in Washington er to the FA and aware that the world. He served as president of contact [email protected] encouraged Wilson to support Pemborke project had attracted the Lower Manhattan Cultural or Catherine Stearns at Stearns- the idea of an annual series of FA attention but could not yet Council in the years after 9/11 [email protected] lectures in three UK universities, be funded, doubled its contri- and was awarded the New centered at Pembroke. Later bution “on behalf of” FA, at the York City Arts Award by Mayor steps would follow: a Fulbright suggestion of Vice-Chair Sky Michael Bloomberg in 2005 for Arndt-Briggs (Fulbright Germany 3 DIVERSITY CORNER My Brother’s Keeper: A New White House Initiative to Empower Boys and Young

A model for the Fulbright Program

Cross-posted from the White House Blog. Valerie B. Jarrett is a Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama. Broderick Johnson is Assistant to the President and Cabinet Secre- tary. From the East Room of the White House, President Obama launched a new effort aimed at empower- ing boys and young men of color, a segment of our society which too often faces disproportionate challenges and obstacles to suc- cess. These obstacles are found in A student eyes the Emancipation Proclamation as the President gave students from William R. Harper High School in Chica- our schools, our communities, our go a tour of the Oval Office, June 5, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) criminal justice system, our families, and even in the minds of our young recently as 2013, only 14 percent Across the country, communities scaling-up strategies which have people themselves. of black boys and 18 percent of are developing and implementing been shown to have the greatest The President is committed to build Hispanic boys scored proficient or promising and proven approaches impact at key moments in these a broad coalition of backers to help above on the 4th grade reading to help put our young people on boys’ lives.es.. break down barriers, clear path- component of the National As- paths to opportunity and success. Valerie B. Jarrett is a Senior Advisor to ways to opportunity, and reverse sessment of Educational Progress Using intensive tutoring, the Be- President Barack Obama. troubling trends which show too compared to 42 percent of white coming A Man program and the Broderick Johnson is Assistant to the many of our boys and young men boys and 21 percent of black and University of Chicago are demon- President and Cabinet Secretary. of color slipping through the cracks Hispanic girls. Youth who cannot strating that dramatic improve- in our society. read “proficiently” by third grade ments in math performance can be To launch the “My Brother’s Keep- are four times less likely to gradu- cost effectively made with middle er” initiative, the President was ate high school by 19. school boys in Chicago. (con’t Pg. 3) joined by local and national leaders By the time The Miami public Fulbright Association Assists in philanthropy, business, gov- students have As recently as 2013, only 14 school system is Fulbright Legacy Lectures in UK ernment, faith communities, and reached 9th percent of black boys and serving thousands ‘89 and 2010, University of Massa- media. The challenges facing boys grade, 42 percent 18 percent of Hispanic boys of students in doz- chusetts), noting the common cause and young men of color are broad of black male scored proficient or above on ens of schools with both organizations serve. and multidimensional, and so must students have the 4th grade reading compo- targeted inter- In February 2014 FA decided to be the team to bring to the table to been suspended nent of the National Assess- ventions to lower match the Endowment’s $1500 begin fostering solutions. or expelled during ment of Educational Progress dropout rates. grant. Welcoming this decision, On hand were General Colin Pow- their school years, compared to 42 percent of Restorative Justice Roth Endowment Chair Richard T. ell, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, compared to 14 white boys and 21 percent of programs used in Arndt, past-president of FA (Ful- Adam Silver, Congresswoman Mar- percent of white black and Hispanic girls. Los Angeles con- bright France ‘49, chair of Commis- cia Fudge, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, male students. tributed to a 38 sions in Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Iran, Congressman Ruben Hinojosa, While black youth account for 16 percent reduction in suspensions, Italy, France) wrote to FA Chairman Magic Johnson, and many more percent of the youth population, cutting black student suspensions John Vogel: “We are grateful for your leaders from key national and re- they represent 28 percent of ju- in half. help to this important and prom- gional philanthropic foundations venile arrests, and 37 percent of In New York, the Young Men’s ising project. For us, your action and major businesses, all of whom the detained population. While Initiative is validating the signifi- is one more link between our two understand what is at stake with just over 6 percent of the overall cant impacts the ASAP program is organizations, both dedicated to this effort. population, black males of all ages having on the college persistence Senator Fulbright’s ingenious plan When we let this many boys and accounted for 43 percent of murder rates of African American and Lati- to bring the Rhodes experience young men fall behind – we are victims in 2011. no young men. These efforts are within the reach of every American crippling our ability to reach our full The fraction of young men not cause not only for hope, but for a graduate student of talent, not only potential as a nation. working or enrolled in school is renewed sense of urgency. As we at Oxford but everywhere, as well as For decades, opportunity has nearly twice as high for blacks than learn more about what works, our to young people from every country disproportionately lagged behind whites. Those neither working nor resolve to act now must strengthen. in our world.” for boys and young men of color in school are not building the skills This initiative is about building on – particularly in our African Amer- and experience needed to ensure successes and promising ideas in the ican and Latino communities. As their ability to succeed later in life. field by testing, implementing, and 4

Alumnus of the Month in the villages where I photographed gave me access to events and people with an insider’s perspective impossible from afar, an I remain BOARD OF DIRECTORS deeply grateful to the Fulbright program for JOHN VOGEL making it possible. President The fellowship gave me freedom; away from PATRICIA A. KREBS newspaper deadlines, I found myself photo- Past President-ex officio graphing more artistically, exploring moods and MARY ELLEN SCHMIDER memories as much as documenting facts. Vice President JOHN F. AUSURA I am interested in questions about home: how do people cope when their homeland changes Treasurer Photojournalist Michael Forster Rothbart swims after pho- irreversibly? Why do so many stay? These ques- PHILIP RAKITA tographing in the Susquehanna River near his home in Secretary Oneonta, NY. Photo by: Alana Smith tions are the theme of my book on Chernobyl and Fukushima—a direct outgrowth of my ›› BOARD MEMBERS Michael Forster Rothbart Fulbright—published by TED Books last year My Fulbright year: how I moved to Chernobyl CHRISTOPHER KELLEY (http://bit.ly/TED-Would-You-Stay). and discovered the unexpected ERWIN CHO For many, losing their original homes was as One month into my Fulbright year, I moved GWENDOLYN WILLIS-DARPOH traumatic as the accident itself. I heard com- near Chernobyl. I am a photojournalist; in my H. ANDREA NEVES pelling stories about alcoholism, mental illness, HERMA WILLIAMS Fulbright project I documented people who still unemployment, medical care, cancer, birth JEROME M. COOPER live near the nuclear disaster site. defects and corruption. Some overcome these JUDY ALSOBROOKS MEREDITH I started out in Kyiv, but the Ukrainian capital difficulties; others surrender to them. KAREN A. HOLBROOK is a modern cosmopolitan city—it has more in I’ll be honest: it wasn’t easy. I don’t miss trips KEISUKE NAKAGAWA common with Boston or Philly than it does with KIM DAVID EGER to the outhouse on winter nights, or trips to rural Ukraine. The cultural gap was too great LORI ANN ALSPAUGH the nearest city to check my email. Worse than for me to drop in and hope to understand daily M. GAIL DERRICK such discomforts was a sense that I had import- patterns of life in these villages. MUSHTAQ MEMON ant work to do but felt unsure where to focus Fulbright is primarily an exchange program — NANCY NEILL my attention. Everyone I met had significant a key goal is encouraging mutual understand- PAULINE EVEILLARD stories to share. ing. So I moved to Sukachi, a village of 1,200, RAMESH RAMAKRISHNAN Eventually I realized that my work is not au- ROBERT RUMINSKI ten miles from the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. thoritative: witnessing is a deeply personal act. ROBERT W. HELM What’s it like to live near Chernobyl? It de- My goal became, simply, to listen carefully and STANLEY N. KATZ pends who you ask. “Is it even safe?” they observe deeply, and to record these experi- TOM MOGA asked in Kyiv. “Why would you want to live up ences. Like many Fulbrighters, I think, my wit- there, in the middle of nowhere?!” But when NATIONAL OFFICE nessing is not about change but reflection: I’m people in Sukachi asked where I lived, I said STEPHEN REILLY holding up a mirror. I rented a room from Nina. “Oh, how conve- Executive Director Now when I have Chernobyl exhibits, I seek to nient,” they’d say. “That’s right in the middle SHAZ AKRAM engage communities in frank discussions about of the village!” Director, Chapter Relations their own local issues. At my forum near the I made friends. I drank vodka with my landlord JENNIFER OXLEY beleaguered Vermont Yankee plant, I watched Nina. I drank tea with Viktor. I photographed Director, Outreach & Dev. as nuclear plant workers and anti-nuke activists my neighbors. Sasha, a recovering alcoholic, KAMILLA HASSEN truly heard each other for the first time. It was taught me how to cut hay. Slava, a doctor Office Coordinator inspiring: this is a way I can give back. at the Chernobyl plant, taught me to make Many Fulbright alumni say their experiences SHOW YOUR SUPPORT borscht. I went to church. I went to the bar. changed them. It’s true for me. I grew as a My commitment to this project began when I Please, contribute to the photographer, becoming surer of how I want to discovered how most photojournalists distort Fulbright Association - work. I grew professionally—opportunities like Chernobyl. They visit briefly, expecting danger http://www.fulbright.org/ university and museum exhibits, and speaking and despair, and come away with photos of donations/ at the UN and on CNN—all happened because deformed children and abandoned buildings. FOLLOW US ON of my Fulbright. Most importantly, I grew per- This sensationalist approach obscures the more sonally. Twitter complex stories about how displaced communi- I became more compassionate. The families ties adapt and survive. Facebook who I documented welcomed me into their In contrast, I sought to create full portraits of homes and trusted me with their stories. Over these communities. I saw suffering, but also joy LinkedIn time, they became not just my subjects but also and beauty. Endurance and hope. Living directly my friends. Edition Shaz Akram & Dayna Alderman Design by Elio Leturia 5 Featured Chapter Board Members

›› Lynne Ogren ›› Ronald Harvey Lynne Ogren is the President of the Eastern NY Ronald Harvey (Bulgaria, 2009-2010) will soon Chapter of the Fulbright Alumni Association. defend his PhD in Community Psychology at She participated in the Fulbright Teacher Ex- DePaul University. He is currently a Project Di- change to Cartagena, Colombia (1988-89); the rector of a large, multi-year NIH-funded study Fulbright Hayes Summer Institute to Mexico in of alternative aftercare housing for formerly the summer of 1998; and the Fulbright Teacher incarcerated men and women substance abuse Exchange to Mexico from 1999-2000. problems. He hopes to do similar research in Lynne is currently a National Board Certified Bulgaria and Eastern Europe pending grant ap- Spanish teacher in South Colonie Schools, Al- provals in 2014. bany, NY, as well as a professional development instructor with the Greater Capital Region Teacher Center for Effective He is the current President of the Fulbright Association, Chicago Chapter. Teaching. Lynne also loves to teach yoga and mindfulness to both young His hobbies include travel, attending classical music concerts, local, nation- people and adults. al, and international ballet, architecture, art galleries, and reading. Harvey Working with the visiting Fulbrighters is a highlight to being part of this is also an avid fan (and student) of improv comedy having taken classes at organization. “I love working with the visitors and learning about their the Second City and Chicago’s world-famous iO Theater. countries and languages. We have lots of fun together.”

›› Rebecca Clothey ›› Sandy McQueen Dr. Rebecca Clothey is a faculty member at Sandy McQueen is an educator who has Drexel University’s School of Education in worked in a variety of settings. As a PTI (part Philadelphia, where has she worked since time instructor) at Georgia State University she 2006. She has a passion for international supervises student interns and student teachers education that began when she attended in early childhood settings in metro Atlanta boarding school in India as a youth and school districts. Her main objective is to ensure since that time she has lived on three dif- that students are truly ready to function as pos- ferent continents. Dr. Clothey served as the itive early childhood educators in diverse public Director of Drexel’s Global and International education settings after graduation. Education program from spring 2008 to fall 2011, and Director of Drexel’s Sandy worked for much of her career as an Higher Education program from spring 2007 to spring 2010. educator of gifted students and English language learners in elementary Previously Dr. Clothey lived in China for 6 years, where she worked at and middle school settings, specializing in the area of social studies. Her various higher education institutions including Capital Normal University work with the Georgia Geographic Alliance, Georgia TOEFL, Six-Star Ref- in Beijing, Beijing Institute of Education, Southwest Jiaotong University in ugee Partnership, the Georgia Council for International Visitors, and the Chengdu, and Xinjiang Normal University in Urumchi. She had a Fulbright Olympic Games has provided opportunities to interact with people from Dissertation Fellowship in Beijing, China, during the 2001-2 academic year. various areas of the world. The majority of her time outside the USA has She was also selected for a Fulbright Fellowship to Uzbekistan in 2004. been in Asia (Fulbright-Hays to Thailand and various educational roles in She was elected as the president of the Board of the Fulbright Association other Asian countries) and in areas of Eastern Europe, also in educational of the Philadelphia-Delaware Valley chapter in 2012. roles.

In the past Dr. Clothey also conducted elections training for the U.S. Currently she helps the youth of the refugee families sponsored by Six-Star State Department in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where she lived for 6 months. Refugee Partnership enter and complete college, and helps coordinate an Dr. Clothey publishes and presents internationally on the topics of higher interfaith women’s group addressing issues of concern to women of all education policy and equity and access in higher education. She recently faith communities. published an edited book, “Post-secondary education and technology: A Global Perspective on opportunities and obstacles to development” (with Stacy Austin-Li and John Weidman; Palgrave MacMillan, 2012). She has a PhD in Administrative and Policy Studies from the University of Pittsburgh School of Education.

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›› Thomas Moga Science Research Council Working Group on Cuba. Katz is a member Thomas Moga is a partner in the Wash- of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, the American Antiquar- ington, DC, office of Shook, Hardy & ian Society, the American Philosophical Society; a Fellow of the Amer- Bacon. A registered patent attorney, his ican Society for Legal History, the American Academy of Arts and experiences include the development Sciences, and the Society of American Historians; and a Correspond- of domestic and foreign patent portfo- ing Member of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He has honorary lios, the acquisition of registrations for degrees from several universities. trademarks and copyrights, licensing, litigation, dispute resolution and media- tion, and policy development. Mr. Moga is an experienced patent prosecutor in the mechanical, chemical, biochemical and pharmaceutical arts. In ALUMNA of the addition, Mr. Moga manages patent enforcement and anti-coun- terfeiting actions in Asia. A frequent speaker on the TRIPS Agree- Month ment of the WTO and on global patent portfolio development and enforcement, Mr. Moga organized and participated in several al administrative posts. In four intellectual property delegations to Asia, both governmental and more years, she was named full non-governmental. He was a visiting foreign expert in law at professor, and she later became Xiamen University, China, and worked as a foreign legal expert dean of the faculty and vice for a patent and trademark office in Taipei. Mr. Moga spent the president of academic affairs at first half of 1997 as a Fulbright Scholar in China where he taught Coe College. patent law at Jilin University and served as a foreign advisor to In addition to being an author, China’s State Intellectual Property Office. Mr. Moga is the author ›› Laura Skandera Laura is also the president of of “China’s Utility Model Patent System: Innovation Driver or De- Trombley Pitzer College. Since she took terrent” (U.S. Chamber of Commerce) and “Patent Practice and office in 2002, the College has Policy in the Pacific Rim” (West Publishing), a multi-volume trea- President Pitzer College, Fulbright moved up 35 places in U.S.News tise on patent law and practice in Asia. Foreign Scholarship Board. and World Report rankings Laura is an internationally re- and was named the 20th most nowned Mark Twain scholar, selective higher education in- ›› Stanley Katz authoring several books and stitution in 2012. A proponent Stanley Katz is President Emeritus of the dozens of scholarly articles on of environmental sustainability, American Council of Learned Societies, Twain. She appeared in Ken she has overseen the construc- the leading organization in humanistic Burns's Mark Twain documen- tion of eight LEED Platinum- or scholarship and education in the United tary and, as a graduate student, Gold-certified buildings and States. Mr. Katz graduated magna cum discovered the largest known the creation of the Robert Red- laude from Harvard University in 1955 cache of Mark Twain letters. ford Conservancy for Southern with a major in English History and Lit- In addition to Mark Twain's California Sustainability. The erature. He received his M.A. from Other Woman, Laura's other College has been the leader in Harvard in American History in 1959 and his Ph.D. in the same field works on Twain include Mark student Fulbright Fellowships from Harvard in 1961. He attended Harvard Law School in 1969-70. Twain in the Company of for four consecutive years and His recent research focuses upon the relationship of civil society and Women and Constructing Mark per 1,000 students for 10 years. constitutionalism to democracy, and upon the relationship of the Twain: New Directions in Schol- In 2013, President Barack Obama United States to the international human rights regime. Formerly arship. appointed Laura to the Fulbright Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of the History of American Law Laura was raised in Southern Foreign Scholarship Board. In and Liberty at Princeton University, Mr. Katz is a leading expert on California, and at age sixteen 2013, she summited Mt. Whitney American legal and constitutional history, and on philanthropy and she attended Pepperdine Uni- after hiking 190 miles on the non-profit institutions. The author and editor of numerous books versity, where she earned her John Muir Trail with a group of and articles, Mr. Katz has served as President of the Organization of BA and MA. She then attended Pitzer students, faculty. American Historians and the American Society for Legal History and the University of Southern Cali- Laura has also been a speaker at as Vice President of the Research Division of the American Historical fornia, where she earned a PhD the TEDxFulbright Conference Association. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the New- in English literature. She earned organized by the Fulbright Asso- berry Library, the Social Science Research Council, the Copyright tenure in three years as an as- ciation in Washington DC. Clearance Center and numerous other institutions. He also currently sociate professor of English at serves as Chair of the American Council of Learned Societies/Social SUNY Potsdam, and held sever-

7 Istanbul Fulbright Scholars Association

Professor Kuban presenting at a seminar organized by Istanbul Fulbright Scholars

The Istanbul Fulbright Scholars Association, founded by Fulbright the seminar given by one of the iconic figures of Turkish academia scholar Prof. Dr. Haydar Ozpinar in 2009, launched its website on- and another Fulbright scholar, Dr. Dogan Kuban. November 2013 (www.istanbulfulbrightbursiyerleri.org). The orga- The association is also open to any kind of collaboration and part- nization sponsors the participation of its members for public events, nership with other Fulbright scholars around the globe. Mr. Akgul is panels and seminars. calling on all Fulbright scholars from anywhere in the world to join At the 2013 Global Entrepreneurship Week in November, Selcuk Ak- online seminars during which new business ideas, projects, innova- gul M.A. & M. Sci., secretary of the association, gave various seminars tion and partnerships can be created at the attendance of university on Innovation and Entrepreneurship to professionals, students and students, as well. the public, all of which were sponsored by the Istanbul Fulbright If you would like to collaborate with Istanbul Fulbright Scholars Asso- Scholars Association. ciation, please contact Mr. Selcuk Akgul at selcuk@istanbulfulbright- Before this event, Fulbright members also met in September to join bursiyerleri.org Albanian Fulbright Alumni Association

Albanian Fulbright Alumni Association (AFAA) website among Albanian and US institutions and individuals; to contribute to Date: February 14, 2013 Category: Alumni Association • Corpo- individual development, solidarity among members, and public pres- rate Social Responsibility (CSR) • News tige and understanding of the Fulbright, Humphrey, and Ron Brown On February 14th, DMCS launched the Albanian Fulbright Alumni Programs; to create a forum for sharing ideas and experiences in Association (AFAA) website. The website aims to bring together the diverse fields, thus playing a significant role in programs and projects USA Exchange program alumni, strengthen the network and dis- which would contribute to national democratic development. seminate the information among its members. Currently, Mr. Dritan Mezini, Administrator of DMCS, is carrying The Albanian Fulbright Alumni Association (AFAA) supports and out his duties as President of AFAA, and Board Member of USA promotes the Fulbright Program of international educational and Exchange Program Umbrella Association. cultural exchange. AFAA aims to strengthen academic, professional, and human contacts

8 IN MEMORIAM REMEMBERING FIRST WOMAN OVER 50 TO BREAK 3:00 IN MARATHON DIES

ance for her mountain climbing he would rather spend the money A Japanese reporter who was at treks. She and her husband, the on a new horse than waste it on the Boston Marathon when d’Elia late Fred d’Elia, climbed every an education for a female. ran the 3:09 interviewed her. The major peak in Europe and the Despite his resistance, she at- next day, she received a call from United States. When she failed tended Syracuse University and her brother in Kyoto telling her she in her attempt to summit Mt. received a degree in special educa- was famous and on the front page Rainier, she went out and ran a tion for the hearing impaired. She of all the newspapers. She was mile, collapsed, and claimed she also got married and had a child. invited to speak at the Women’s would never do that again. Two years later her husband left World Sports Symposium in Tokyo. In 1980, d’Elia became the her. She returned to Japan only to After being away for 16 years and first woman over the age of be told by her father that she had vowing she would never return, 50 to run a sub three-hour disgraced the family and must put she went back to Japan a women’s marathon at the World Veter- her daughter up for adoption. Her hero. an’s Marathon Champions in mother gave her money to return A book about her life, “Running Glasgow, Scotland, finishing to the states and start a new life. On” and a movie based on the Toshiko d’Elia grew up amid the in 2:57:25. To commemorate her She lived in the Bronx and book was released in Japan and chaos and ravages of post-war Ja- achievement, she was given the taught at the New York School translated in the United States. pan and went on to become a pi- Runner’s World Magazine’s Paavo for the Deaf. In 1961 she married After every race, the first thing oneer in women’s running, setting Nurmi Award. She was also the Manfred d’Elia of Ridgewood NJ, d’Elia did was to remove her shoes numerous world and American first woman over 65 to run a sub and she and Erica moved into his and thank her feet for taking care records at every age division and seven-minute mile indoors. In 1996 home. of her. Then she would have a distance. She came to the Unit- she was inaugurated into the first d’Elia ran her first marathon in beer. She enjoyed introducing run- ed States in 1951 on a Fulbright class of the Masters division of the January 1976. She only trained to ning to first-timers, teaching them Scholarship and took up running USATF National Track and Field Hall run 13.1 miles (half the marathon) to love the sport first before get- at 42. She died Wednesday, Feb- of Fame. to see if she could do the distance. ting competitive. She viewed run- ruary 19 at her daughter’s home in Toshiko d’Elia was born in Kyo- When she reached the halfway ning as a friendship that requires Allendale, NJ, due to a brain tumor to, Japan on January 2, 1930. She point she kept running and fin- nurturing. discovered in December. Prior to was raised in a traditional manner, ished in 3:25. Three months later “I view running as a necessary her diagnosis, d’Elia swam one upholding classic Japanese culture. she ran the Boston Marathon in tool to help get me through life, so hour every morning, followed by When she received a Fulbright 3:15. Seven months later she ran I do everything I can to nurture it, two hours of exercise, and then her Scholarship to study in the United the New York City Marathon and take care of it, and appreciate it. I afternoon run. Her running career States she appealed to her father was the third women’s finisher in want to hold on to my friend for as started as a way to build endur- to fund the trip. He responded that 3:08:15. long as I live.”

REMEMBERING LOUISVILLE BACH SOCIETY FOUNDER MELVIN DICKINSON, DIES

masterpieces from all musical He received the 2001 Kentucky “His vision in founding the periods, but specialized in a Governor’s Award in the Arts Bach Society and those 47 years of repertoire of J.S. Bach’s masses, individual artist award for lifetime performances were a wonderful passions, oratorios and canta- achievement. gift to the community,” says Hatte- tas. The organization closed in “Melvin was an educator berg. “I knew him first as a faculty 2011, following the Dickinsons’ at heart who laid considerable colleague at the University of Lou- retirements. groundwork for Louisville and isville School of Music, where he Melvin Dickinson studied the its cultural tapestry,” says John taught organ, and I had the plea- works of Bach on a Fulbright Austin Clark, co-artistic director sure of knowing some of his fine scholarship to Germany, where of Louisville’s Bourbon Baroque organ students. I remember how he met Margaret, herself on ensemble. “He was a true mentor excitedly he spoke when talking a similar program of study. who supported my growth as a about past or upcoming trips to They returned to Kentucky and young professional musician and Germany, where he had studied as founded a Bach cantata society accepted me from student to a Fulbright Scholar.” at a Frankfort church in 1960. colleague. I will miss his character, “But what I remember most is In Louisville, Dickinson led thoughtfulness and candor. May thinking of Melvin as a walking Melvin Dickinson, who founded the organ department at the he rest in peace.” encyclopedia when it came to the the Louisville Bach Society with his University of Louisville and, with Kent Hatteberg, director of music of Bach,” adds Hatteberg. wife Margaret, died of a heart at- the Bach Society, conducted more Choral Activities at the University “His knowledge of Bach’s works tack Friday morning in his Louisville than 500 artists over hundreds of Louisville, says Dickinsons’ pass- was always at his fingertips – he home. He was 77. of concerts for the community ing will leave a major void in the never needed to look up any- Founded in 1964, the Louisville choral and orchestral ensemble. Louisville arts scene. thing.” Bach Society performed choral 9