Fulbrighter Podcast

The Fulbright Program is turning 80 and our colleagues at the Fulbright Association would like to invite you to celebrate the program while supporting local communities across the world! On today’s episode of the Fulbrighter podcast our special guest is Patrice Moulton. She was a Fulbright Specialist in Nepal, where she helped develop one of the country’s first graduate programs in the field of ps...

The Amazon rainforest is often referred to as the world’s lungs. This dense and magical tropical forest, which spans nine countries in South America has become a symbol of nature’s powerful yet delicate balance. For decades, however, the forest has been suffering from severe deforestation, which threatens its existence and has the potential to harm ecosystems across the planet. Today’s guest has b...

Have you always dreamed of becoming a Fulbrighter, but didn’t really think it was something you could achieve? Or perhaps you have already been granted a Fulbright Award, and now you would love to see other talented people in your life applying for it as well. Or maybe you are in the process of applying for a grant right now, but are unsure about what constitutes a great application…Well, then wor...

What if the most meaningful part of your next vacation wasn't the resort, the food, or the excursions but reading with a child in a classroom? Today's guest has spent 30 years crossing that line between tourist and traveler. Aileen Hale has been awarded two separate Fulbright grants in Colombia and another one in Belize, holds a doctorate in international education, and has built a career...

On today's episode we have a conversation with Thatcher Warrick Hess, a trilingual multimedia journalist, historian and linguist from California who reports on multilingual communities, mainly those that speak Portuguese and Spanish. He's obtained a master’s in Bilingual Journalism at the University of Arizona and was a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Brazil, in 2022. Thatcher has...

On today's episode of the Fulbrighter podcast our guest is Brian McCarty , a photographer, art director and producer from the U.S. who has been a Fulbright Specialist in China and Hong Kong in 2017. He has 20 years of experience working in the toy industry and is a board member for the International Toy Research Association, as well as the Executive Director of War Toys , a nonprofit arts &amp...

Did you know people with anxiety wait an average of 20 years before getting their first appointment with a psychologist? For depression, it's 5 to 10 years. For phobias — sometimes a lifetime. Brazilian psychologist André Faro decided that wasn't acceptable. In this episode, André shares what five years of tracking Brazilian mental health data through the pandemic actually revealed — inclu...

On the fifth episode of the Fulbrighter podcast our guest is Callie Rich Neal, also known as Jo Jo. Callie, from Riverside California, has a background in dance and wellness, and has hosted 100 episodes of the podcast “ Shaping a Life You Love ”, where she talks about community, self growth and the many ways to find purpose, amongst other things. Callie’s dance and wellness school focuses on movem...

On the fourth episode of the Fulbrighter podcast we talk to Lev Horodyskyj, an astrobiologist and educational innovator from Arizona, currently leading the nonprofit Science Voices, which aims at helping overlooked communities improve their science education using modern and low-cost approaches. He earned a PhD in geosciences and astrobiology from Pennsylvania State University and has spent ten ye...

On the third episode of the Fulbrighter podcast our team interviews Kathleen Mulligan, a Professor of Voice and Speech at the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance at Ithaca College. Kathleen is the Vice President of the Central New York Chapter of Fulbright Association and has been granted Fulbright Awards in  India and Pakistan, in which she worked on different projects aimed at supporting local w...

On the second episode of the Fulbrighter podcast History Professor Jeffrey Lesser discusses his new book, Living and Dying in São Paulo: Immigrants, Health, and the Built Environment in Brazil , published in the U.S by Duke University Press and in Brazil by Editora UNESP. Jeffrey is a Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History at Emory University and his research focuses on the relationships betwee...

Is AI going to change everything — or are we overreacting? And what does a chemist who studies the history and philosophy of science think about it all? In this episode, we talk with José Ferraz-Caetano — a Portuguese researcher working at the intersection of computational chemistry, data science, and the philosophy of science. José has a rare vantage point: he builds AI tools for chemistry at MIT...