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
Diverse midcareer leaders from 26 countries travel to U.S. in April Philadelphia, February 13, 2023 – Eisenhower Fellowships kicks off its 70th anniversary year by selecting 26 exceptional mid-career leaders from five continents for its prestigious 2023 Global Program, nearly
Calling on ascendant leaders from Turkey to the Baltics, Ukrainian exiles in the region. PHILADELPHIA, PA (PRWEB) NOVEMBER 16, 2022–In fall 2023, Eisenhower Fellowships will host a groundbreaking Eastern Europe Program to strengthen democratic governance across the region. The program
Former U.S. Representative Jane Harman, a leading Democratic Party figure in U.S. national security circles, has joined the Eisenhower Fellowships Board of Trustees. During her public career, Harman served nine terms in Congress, including four years after 9/11 as ranking
PHILADELPHIA, AUGUST 17, 2022–Enforcing racial equality through the rule of law, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent troops from the U.S. Army’s 101 Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957 to protect the Constitutional right of nine Black students to
Twenty-three ascendant leaders from 21 countries are in the United States for Eisenhower Fellowships’ prestigious 2022 Global Program, six weeks of intensive, mid-career development in the United States this fall in pursuit of groundbreaking projects and enlightening exchanges with critical
Eisenhower Fellowships today announced its third class of Eisenhower Global Scholars, four outstanding recent American university graduates it will send abroad for a year of postgraduate study at the University of Oxford and IE University in Madrid leading to a
Kellie Everett, 30, a 2022 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, served six years in the U.S. Navy as a nuclear reactor operator, generating power for the 1,100-foot supercarrier U.S.S. George H. W. Bush at its home port
Adetomiwa Owoseni, 25, a 2018 graduate of Howard University, is enrolled at Harvard Medical School, where he seeks to increase the number of Black doctors in academic medicine, a topic he wrote about in the New England Journal of
Camila Feltrin, 24, a 2020 graduate of Dartmouth College, is operations manager of RAM Legal Services, a San Francisco law firm specializing in immigration, where she manages its paralegals and interpreters and organizes filings for asylum cases. Previously she