Around the world, Eisenhower Fellows are rolling up their sleeves and coming together to fight the coronavirus pandemic. We are hearing from them regularly in our EF virtual family chats, online discussions that allow us to check in with our
In Ireland, Eisenhower Fellows Salome Mbugua (Ireland 2010) and Oonagh McPhillips (Ireland 2016) work in separate (and sometimes opposite) areas of advocacy and government respectively. But they have recently come together to work on developing an important new law to
By Barbra Nyangairi (Zimbabwe 2016) Through the organization that I co-founded—the Deaf Zimbabwe Trust—we are currently working on increasing access to quality education for children and young people with deafness, through advocacy for policy reform and placement of deaf young people
El Paso, Texas An economist specializing in international trade and leading a university-based research center, Patrick Schaefer (USA/Zhi-Xing 2018) forged a partnership with China’s premier government think tank, the Shanghai International Shipping Institute. Patrick’s center — the Hunt Institute for
San Francisco, California On Fellowship in India and Indonesia he learned that access to capital was the biggest constraint on growth for sustainable-agriculture, alternative-energy and other renewable-resource companies that generally are too large for microfinance loans but too small for
Harare, Zimbabwe In the midst of a global movement of women taking strides towards political leadership, Chitsike uncovered the barriers that prevent women from succeeding in her country. After her fellowship ended in the fall of 2015, Chitsike secured funding
PHILADELPHIA, September 18, 2024–Camilo Fonseca Velásquez, Macro Sector Director of Creative, Cultural and Graphic Industries for the Bogotá Chamber of Commerce, and Mariana Villamizar, Director of Public and Corporate Relations for Grupo Éxito, today were named co-recipients of the 2024
PHILADELPHIA, July 9, 2024 – Eisenhower Fellowships has selected ten ascendant American leaders from diverse professional fields for its 2024 USA Fellowship Program, offering them unique opportunities to travel overseas to meet and exchange ideas with top global experts in
Eisenhower Fellowships (EF) announces the selection of 22 exceptional mid-career leaders from five continents for its prestigious 2024 Women’s Leadership Program, nearly six weeks of intensive travel across the United States to meet with experts in their respective fields. PHILADELPHIA, June 24
Nate Jo, 25, a 2022 graduate of Western Washington University, is passionate about housing policy reform. As a policy advisor in the office of the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Jo helped build an innovative, cloud-based monitoring tool that expands access
John Richardson, 23, a University of Alabama graduate with a bachelor’s degree in history and political science, was elected in his senior year to the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. As an editor of the school’s Capstone Journal of Law
Axana Soltan, 26, a graduate of the Honors Academy of Virginia Commonwealth University and a law graduate from the George Washington University Law School, is a passionate advocate for female empowerment. Born in Afghanistan under the repressive Taliban regime, she
Emily Boutin, 21, a 2024 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, knows firsthand the impact of war on military families. Parts of her childhood were spent waiting for her father, a U.S. Army commander, to return safely from his combat
PHILADELPHIA, June 4, 2024 – Eisenhower Fellowships selected four outstanding recent American university graduates for its 2025 Global Scholars Program, sending them to the University of Oxford and IE University in Madrid for a year of postgraduate study leading to
Celebrated filmmaker to receive prestigious award in Philadelphia for his extraordinary artistic contributions to global understanding. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 21, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Eisenhower Fellowships will award its highest honor, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Medal for Leadership and Service, to legendary film director Steven Spielberg for his