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MY EF JOURNEY: NATALIA PONCE DE LEÓN

In March 2014, Natalia Ponce de León’s life was irrevocably changed after a stalker threw a liter of sulfuric acid on her face and body. Ponce de León has since been, in her words, “reborn from the ashes” of that

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OBSERVATIONS FROM MARAWI CITY

Violence has again entrenched Marawi City in the southern Philippines where government troops are attempting to defeat a group of Islamic State-aligned militants following their rampage of the city. Since the May 23 siege of Marawi on the island of

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HUMANITARIAN RELIEF IN SRI LANKA

Sri Lanka is enduring some of the worst flooding in 14 years, with over half a million people displaced, hundreds dead, injured or missing. Only two weeks after returning from his Eisenhower Fellowship, Chevaan Daniel (Sri Lanka 2017) responded quickly

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FELLOWSHIP IMPACT IN SAUDI ARABIA

Sheikh Abdulllah Al-Dabbagh Prior to taking his role as Minister of Agriculture and later establishing the Al-Dabbagh Group, a family conglomerate founded in 1962, Abdullah Al-Dabbagh became the first Eisenhower Fellow from Saudi Arabia in 1960. He was sent on

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PASSING OF ANTONIO DIAS LEITE, JR

It’s with deep sorrow that we report Eisenhower Fellow Antônio Dias Leite Jr. (Brazil 1960) passed away earlier this month at age 97 in his home country. He died of complications from a fall he suffered two weeks prior, but

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