On Tuesday, Columbia College announced the slate of 16 alums chosen for the Fulbright scholarship.

On August 9, Columbia announced that 15 Columbia College alumni and one General Studies alum have been awarded the Fulbright U.S. Scholars grant. 

The highly selective scholarship program annually awards 1,900 grants to students and young professionals to support their work as researchers, graduate students, and English teaching assistants in more than 140 countries.

Full profiles of the award recipients can be read in Columbia’s announcement. The recipients are as follows:

Andrea Akinola (CC ‘22) will work as an English teaching assistant in the Canary Islands, Spain.

Bella Barnes (CC ‘22) will work as an English teaching assistant in the Canary Islands, Spain.

Kavin Chada (CC ‘22) will study philosophy at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

Katie Curran (CC ‘20) will work as an English teaching assistant in Spain.

Katherine De Chant (CC ‘16) will pursue a master’s in advanced global studies at Sciences Po in Paris, France.

Joshua Elias (CC ‘21) will work as an English teaching assistant in Lankaran, Azerbaijan.

Jose Esquer (GS ‘21) will work as an English teaching assistant in Colombia.

Gavin Goodrich (CC ‘22) will work as an English teaching assistant in Galicia, Spain.

Skylar Green (CC ‘22) will pursue a master’s in Korean studies at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea.

Kate Elise Johnson (CC ‘22) will work in Bologna, Italy on her research project studying human viruses found in bee products.

Samuel Klein-Markman (CC ‘17) will work on his research project studying guitar composition and performance in the Brazilian guitar tradition.

Ky Mahar Luther (CC ‘22) will work as an English teaching assistant in Uganda.

Franziska Nace (CC ‘22) will work as an English teaching assistant in Semey, Kazakhstan.

Isa Pierce (CC ‘22) will work as an English teaching assistant in Georgia.

Maryam Rahaman (CC ‘22) will work as an English teaching assistant in South Korea.

Steven Zeldin (CC ‘22) will join the Karolinska Institute in Solna, Sweden, to research medical mistrust in the Swedish HIV+ community.

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