Tenth Prep Fulbright Named

 

Prep’s most recent Fulbright scholar, Professor Asma Sayeed (III/Chapin '87, Princeton '91) PhD, Princeton ’08, of Lafayette College is researching the religious education of medieval Islamic women in Syria. Commenting from Damascus, Sayeed attributed the beginning of her academic career to Prep for Prep, “I often think about how that one door in my life has opened so many more. It amazes people to hear that a decision I made in the fifth grade (to enroll in Prep) could have such a profound impact on the rest of my life.” (Read more about Sayeed’s research.)

Sayeed joins a distinguished group of Prep alums who have had the distinction. They include:

 

• Pearl Kan (XX/Brearley '04, Univ. of Chicago '08) studied the Chinese diaspora through music in Kingston, Jamaica in 2008-2009.

 

• Damaso Reyes (XII/Village Community '92, Calhoun '96, NYU) was selected as an artist-in-residence at the Museums Quartier in Vienna, Austria. His work there contributed to a long-term photographic documentary project entitled “the Europeans”, which traces the changing social landscape with the expanding European Union. (Read his blog here)

 

• Francine Chew Iheukumere (P9 V/Exeter '96, Yale '00) MBA, Harvard '07 used her 2004-2005 Fulbright grant to create a database for Chicos de la Calle, a non-profit children’s organization in Ecuador. After serving as an analyst at Merrill Lynch, Chew recently joined the staff of The Goldman Sachs Foundation.

 

• During her fellowship in Bahia, Brazil, Lorelei Williams (X/Sacred Heart '94, Yale '98) MPA, Harvard '02 played a role in starting the POMPA project, which focused on preparing Afro-Brazilian college students for careers in public service. A former analyst at Accenture, she is currently President of Onira Philanthropic Advisors.

 

In addition, Prep boasts three Paul and Daisy Soros Fellows, two Truman Scholars, two Marshall Scholars, two Harlan Fiske Stone Scholars, two Rockefeller Fellows, and one Rhodes Scholar.