Artist Janet Echelman reshapes urban airspace with monumental public sculptures animated by natural forces like wind, water, and sunlight. Now in construction for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, her Richmond Skating Oval commission takes run-off water from the facility’s two-acre roof and transforms it into a water garden. Major U.S. commissions include the two-city-block Phoenix Civic Space wind sculpture and the Hoboken September 11th Memorial Island in the Hudson River. Her sculpture and exhibitions have been produced throughout the world. In 2005, when Ms. Echelman permanently installed a 160-foot-tall knotted wind sculpture on the coast of Porto, Portugal, Sculpture Magazine called it “one of the truly significant public artworks in recent years.” A Harvard College graduate, Ms. Echelman has graduate degrees in painting and in psychology. In 1996, she received a Fulbright award to teach painting at India’s National Institute of Design, a pivotal artistic experience that marked her change from painting to sculpture.
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Arthur P. Dudden
Founding President of the Fulbright Association, Arthur Dudden is the Fairbanks professor emeritus and professor of history emeritus at Bryn Mawr College. He received a senior Fulbright research scholarship to Denmark in 1959 and served as a Fulbright lecturer to Denmark in 1992. Dr. Dudden is the author of many scholarly books and articles. He is founding president and a life member of the Fulbright Association. He is also a member of the American Studies Association and received the Bode-Pearson Prize from the American Studies Association in 1991. Dr. Dudden received a bachelors degree from Wayne State University, and his masters degree and doctorate from the University of Michigan. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1942 to 1945.
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J. William Fulbright
J. William Fulbright was born on April 9, 1905 in Sumner, Missouri. He was educated at the University of Arkansas where he was awarded the B.A. degree in Political Science in 1925. He then attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar where he received an M.A. degree.
When Fulbright returned to the United States, he studied law at George Washington University in Washington, DC. During the 1930's, he served in the Justice Department and was an instructor at the George Washington University Law School. In 1936 he returned to Arkansas where he was a lecturer in law and, from 1939 to 1941, president of the University of Arkansas, at the time the youngest university president in the country.
He entered politics in 1942 and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, entering Congress in January 1943 and becoming a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. In September of that year the House adopted the Fulbright Resolution supporting an international peace-keeping machinery encouraging United States participation in what became the United Nations, and this brought national attention to Fulbright.
In November 1944 he was elected to the U.S. Senate and served there from 1945 through 1974 becoming one of the most influential and best-known members of the Senate. His legislation establishing the Fulbright Program slipped through the Senate without debate in 1946. Its first participants went overseas in 1948, funded by war reparations and foreign loan repayments to the United States. This program has had extraordinary impact around the world. There have been more than 250,000 Fulbright grantees and many of them have made significant contributions within their countries as well as to the overall goal of advancing mutual understanding.
In 1949 Fulbright became a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. From 1959-1974 he served as chairman, the longest serving chairman of that committee in history. His Senate career was marked by some notable cases of dissent. In 1954 he was the only Senator to vote against an appropriation for the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which was chaired by Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. He also lodged serious objections to President Kennedy in advance of the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961.
He was particularly in the spotlight as a powerful voice in the chaotic times of the war in Vietnam, when he chaired the Senate hearings on United States policy and the conduct of the war. In 1963 Walter Lippman wrote of Fulbright: "The role he plays in Washington is an indispensable role. There is no one else who is so powerful and also so wise, and if there were any question of removing him from public life, it would be a national calamity."
After leaving the Senate, he was of counsel to the Washington law firm of Hogan & Hartson and remained active in support of the international exchange program that bears his name.
He received numerous awards from governments, universities, and educational organizations around the world for his efforts on behalf of education and international understanding. In 1993 he was presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Clinton.
Senator J. William Fulbright died on February 9, 1995 at the age of 89 at his home in Washington, DC.
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Maurizio A. Gianturco
Maurizio Gianturco was a member of the Fulbright Association?s Board of Directors from 1989 to 1995, serving as vice president for administration in 1992 and 1993 and as president in 1994 and 1995. He received a Doctor of Science degree from the University of Rome in 1951 and served there as assistant professor in 1952. In 1953, he was a Fulbright postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Illinois where he continued as a senior research associate from 1954 to 1956. In 1957, he joined The Coca-Cola Company, eventually rising to senior vice president. Dr. Gianturco was instrumental in securing The Coca-Cola Foundation?s support for the Fulbright Prize. As president of the Fulbright Association, he presented the Fulbright Prize to the 1994 laureate, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and to the 1995 laureate, former Austrian Federal Chancellor Franz Vranitzky.
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Patricia Krebs
A member of the firm King, LeBlanc & Bland in New Orleans, Dr. Krebs graduated from East Texas University in 1973 and earned her master's degree in 1976 and her doctoral degree in 1980 from Tulane University. She completed graduate studies on a Fulbright-Hays fellowship in Spain. She was a 1983 magna cum laude graduate of Tulane Law School and was a member of the Order of the Coif. While in law school, she served on the Board of Editors of the Tulane Maritime Lawyer and was the managing editor for the 1982-1983 edition. She is a member of the Louisiana, Texas, Federal and American Bar Associations. She is immediate past president of the Fulbright Association's Louisiana Chapter.
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Rebecca Maciera-Kaufmann
Executive vice president and small business segment manager at Wells Fargo & Company, Ms. Macieira-Kaufmann is responsible for profit and loss management of the Small Business Cash Management and Business Direct Lines and Loans businesses, as well as Small Business Marketing for the Diversified Products Group. Before joining Wells Fargo in 1996, she spent three years at Providian Financial, serving the last year as vice president of customer marketing. Prior to that, Ms. Macieira-Kaufmann was senior engagement manager at Retail Solutions Management Consultants in London, England. She graduated cum laude from Brown University, where she earned her bachelor's degree in semiotics. She was a Fulbright fellow at the University of Helsinki, Finland, in 1986 where she conducted research on the news coverage of the Chernobyl disaster. She earned a master's of business administration degree from Stanford University. Ms. Macieira-Kaufmann is president of the board of directors of the Jewish Vocational Services in San Francisco and is also a member of the Jewish Community Federation Board. She is a Wexner Heritage Foundation Fellow (2003-2005) and has been recognized for the past three years as one of the 100 Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business by the San Francisco Business Times.
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Nancy Neill
A writer and independent consultant with a background in business and a lifelong affinity for the arts, Ms. Neill is experienced in facilitating management discussions of vision, values and strategy, coaching leaders in presence, and writing articles and speeches for CEOs and executive directors of organizations. She spent six years with McKinsey & Company, Inc., and then founded the Atlanta Communications Group, LLC, which provided facilitation, writing, and training in such areas as presence, storytelling for leaders, interactive skills, logic, and active listening. She has appeared as guest lecturer in communication for Emory University?s Goizueta Business School and for Georgia State University. Ms. Neill has also served a number of nonprofits, including CARE, the Carter Center, and the New York Blood Center. A former writer and columnist for Business Atlanta and Atlanta magazines, Ms. Neill has written articles for clients that have appeared in The Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review and in dozens of industry publications. Under her own name she is an award-winning short story writer, co-author of an upcoming book on global health, and author of a book on local history, More than Bricks and Mortar. Ms. Neill is a past president of the Georgia Chapter of the Fulbright Association and has a masters degree in English literature from the University of California. She was a Fulbright fellow in New Zealand in 1963.
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H. Andrea Neves
Professor of education at Sonoma State University and Visiting Professor at Stanford, Andrea Neves received her doctorate in education from Stanford University in 1984. Born and reared in California, Dr. Neves completed her undergraduate education in Mexico D.F. Mexico and received a bachelor's degree in international relations and Latin American studies. She studied cultural anthropology and early childhood education on a full scholarship from the Mexican American Education Project and received her master's degree in social sciences from Sacramento State University. Dr. Neves has taught at the American School Foundation secondary school in Mexico City and the Stanford University School of Education and served as consultant for numerous education projects in several states and countries. In 1997 and in 2002, Dr. Neves received Fulbright-Hays fellowships to study issues of globalization in the education systems of Tanzania and Uganda. She continues work in both countries and in 2005 returned to the North Mara district of Tanzania to collect data and to follow up on the construction of five classrooms and teachers' houses she has underwritten. She is a member of the board of the Sonoma State University Academic Foundation and Scripps College and serves on the advisory boards of the Stanford University School of Education,and the Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children at Claremont McKenna College.
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Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg
As president and CEO of Strategic Investment Group (Va.), Ms. Ochoa-Brillembourg leads an investment and management group which designs and implements global investment strategies for large institutions and individual investors. The group manages over U.S. $42 billion for investors in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Ms. Brillembourg is a chartered financial analyst (CFA) and received her master?s in public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, where she was a Fulbright fellow from Venezuela. She has completed all but the dissertation requirement for a doctorate in finance at Harvard Business School. Ms. Ochoa-Brillembourg also serves as managing director of Emerging Markets Management L.L.C. and is a member of the Boards of Directors of the World Bank/International Monetary Fund Credit Union; General Mills; Harvard Management Company; The McGraw-Hill Companies; the National Symphony Orchestra; and The Washington Opera. She is a member of the Investment Committee of the Rockefeller Family Fund and serves on the Advisory Committees of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; The Hauser Center; Harvard University; and Small Enterprise Assistance Funds. She is founder and chair of the Youth Orchestra of the Americas. In 2005, Ms. Ochoa-Brillembourg was selected to receive the Lifetime Achievement Medal by the Fulbright Association.
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The Honorable Ronald Palmer
Emeritus professor of the practice of international affairs at George Washington University (D.C.), Ambassador Palmer is a 1954 graduate of Howard University. He was a Fulbright fellow at the University of Bordeaux, France, in 1954-55. He earned his master of arts degree at the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University in 1957 and entered the Foreign Service that year. Until his retirement in 1989, he served posts in Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Copenhagen, Manila, Lome (Togo), Kuala Lumpur, and Port Louis (Mauritius) and was ambassador in his last three posts. He served as treasurer of the Fulbright commissions in Malaysia (1962-63) and in Denmark (1965-67). During his Foreign Service career, he served in eight domestic positions and seven overseas postings. He was appointed Baker professor at George Washington University in 1990 and held that position until 1996 when he became professor of the practice of international affairs. He was named emeritus in 2001. He has written widely on international affairs. Several articles on Southeast Asian terrorism are posted at americandiplomacy.org. Ambassador Palmer is the co-author of ?Building ASEAN: 25 Years of Southeast Asian Cooperation? (1987). He served as co-chairman of UN Week 2003 and spoke on Ralph Bunche at different venues, including at the Fulbright Association?s 26th annual conference in Washington, D.C.
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Everette B. Penn
Founding president of the Houston/SouthEast Texas Chapter of the Fulbright Association, Everette Penn is associate professor in the Departments of Criminology and Cross-Cultural Studies at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. He leads annual study abroad and service-learning trips to Egypt, where he was a Fulbright scholar in 2005, teaching American criminal justice at Cairo University. He is the author of numerous articles and books on homeland security, juvenile justice, criminal justice, and teaching methodologies. He currently chairs the American Society of Criminology?s Division on People of Color and Crime. He also serves on the Houston Advisory Board of the United Negro College Fund. His consulting firm, Penn Consulting, assists clients in homeland security, criminal justice, and diversity issues. He served in the United States Army Reserve as a logistics officer from 1990 to 2004. Dr. Penn received his doctorate in criminology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, his master?s degree from the University of Central Texas, and his bachelor?s degree from Rutgers University.
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Manfred Philipp
An ex-officio, nonvoting member of the Board of Trustees and chairperson of the 2006-2007 session of the City University of New York (CUNY) University Faculty Senate, Dr. Philipp is professor and past department chair of chemistry at Lehman College and professor in the biochemistry and chemistry doctoral programs at the CUNY Graduate Center. As a Fulbright scholar in 2005, Dr. Philipp taught bioinformatics and biopharmaceutics at the Catholic University of Portugal. He received his doctorate in biochemistry from Northwestern University and his bachelor?s degree in chemistry from Michigan Technological University. Dr. Philipp has been program director for the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-supported, research-based student support programs Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS), Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC), and the High School Summer Research Apprentice Program. He was co-program director of the NIH-supported Bridges to the Baccalaureate at Bronx Community College and Lehman College. He has also served as national president of the MBRS/MARC Program Directors Organization.
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Hoyt Purvis
Chairman of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board from 1995 to 1998, Mr. Purvis directs the international relations major at the University of Arkansas and is professor of journalism and adjunct professor of political science. He served as director of the Fulbright Institute of International Relations at Arkansas from 1982-2000. Before joining the Arkansas faculty, he taught at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at Texas. Earlier in his career, he worked as a staff member in the U.S. Senate and was press secretary and special assistant to Senator J. William Fulbright and foreign/defense policy advisor to Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd. He served on the presidentially-appointed J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, which oversees the Fulbright program, from 1993 to 2003. He is a newspaper columnist and frequent television commentator on politics and public affairs. Mr. Purvis holds bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from the University of Texas and also did graduate study at the University of Nancy (France) and Vanderbilt University.
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Mary Ellen Heian Schmider
A collegiate professor in distance education for the University of Maryland University College-Adelphi, Dr. Schmider combines academic administration, teaching, and extensive service on nonprofit boards. She is graduate dean emerita at Minnesota State University Moorhead. As a Fulbright lecturer in 1997 in the People?s Republic of China, she taught graduate courses in American poetry and literary criticism at Lanzhou University, Gansu Province. Under a Fulbright lectureship in 2005-2006, she served at Sts. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia. She has served as chair of the Minnesota Humanities Commission. Her board service also includes Lutheran Brotherhood, now Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, the Executive Committee of the Board for Higher Education and Schools of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and the Chippewa (Wis.) Falls School Foundation. She holds a doctoral degree in American studies from the University of Minnesota, a master?s degree from the University of Southern California, and a bachelors degree from St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn.
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Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich
Dr. Scruggs-Leftwich currently is senior professor, National Labor College - George Meany Campus in Maryland. Formerly, as executive director and chief operating officer of the national Black Leadership Forum, Inc. for 10 years, she conducted policy analysis, advocacy, fund raising and administration. Dr. Scruggs-Leftwich received her bachelor's degree in political science, cum laude, from North Carolina Central University and then studied international organizations and political science as a Fulbright fellow in Germany (1955-56). She earned a master of arts degree in public administration from the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs and a doctorate in city and regional planning from the University of Pennsylvania. She served as deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and executive director of President Jimmy Carter's Urban and Regional Policy Task Force (1977-79); as New York state's housing commissioner in the governor's cabinet (1982-85); and as deputy mayor of Philadelphia (1985-87). She also formerly was a municipal finance and private banking executive, and is author of numerous articles and books.
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Bruce R. Sievers
From 1983 to 2002, Dr. Sievers served as executive director of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund in San Francisco. He is adjunct professor at the Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management at the University of San Francisco and a visiting scholar and lecturer at Stanford University. His work in philanthropy has included serving on the board of directors of the Council on Foundations and participating in Council on Foundations delegations to the Soviet Union and the Baltics. He continues his professional involvement in philanthropy as senior fellow with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and as consulting director with the Skirball Foundation. Dr. Sievers holds a bachelor's degree in international relations and master's and doctoral degrees in political science from Stanford University. He studied at the Freie Universitaet Berlin as a Fulbright scholar.
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Suzanne Eloise Siskel
Ms. Siskel was named director, community and resource development at the Ford Foundation's New York headquarters in 2005. She was previously based in Jakarta as the Foundation's representative for Indonesia and has also served as the Foundation's representative for the Philippines and as program officer for Rural Poverty and Resources in Jakarta. Ms. Siskel's current position brought her to New York after living and working in Indonesia for nearly 30 years, first as a Luce Scholar at Airlangga University in East Java in 1974-75, and later as a Fulbright scholar in 1983-84 for research on the island of Madura. Ms. Siskel was a social science advisor to development projects in west Timor and Flores islands in eastern Indonesia before joining the Ford Foundation in Jakarta in 1990. Previous research projects brought her to northeast Brazil, Andros Island in the Bahamas, and highland Chiapas in the 1970s. She studied social anthropology at Harvard and The Johns Hopkins University and is member of Phi Beta Kappa.
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John H. Vogel
A partner in the Washington, D.C., office of the law firm of Patton Boggs LLP, Mr. Vogel serves as a principal in the firm’s Business Group and specializes in international corporate finance. His clients include U.S.- and foreign-based corporations and financial institutions doing business throughout the world, particularly in Europe and in the Middle East. Mr. Vogel has spoken and written on a variety of international financial issues and trends, including the increasing utilization throughout the world of Islamic financing for large-scale projects. Mr. Vogel received his bachelor’s degree in history at Princeton University and earned his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School. Mr. Vogel was a Fulbright fellow in Brussels, Belgium, in 1968, where he was a stagiaire at the European Union and served as an assistant to the EU’s chief legal counsel. Mr. Vogel has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Fulbright Association’s National Capital Area Chapter.
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Katherine E. White
A registered patent attorney, Ms. White is a law professor at the Wayne State University Law School in Detroit. She received her bachelor's of science and engineering degree from Princeton University in 1988, her J.D. degree from the University of Washington in 1991, and an LL.M. degree from the George Washington University Law School in 1996. From 1995 to 1996, she was a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Randall R. Rader, Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She serves as a Major (P) in the U.S. Army reserves. She was a Fulbright senior scholar in Germany in 1999 and a White House Fellow from 2001 to 2002. She is a member of the University of Michigan Board of Regents.
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