Emma Etheridge to teach in Venezuela

 

HARTFORD, CT – Emma Etheridge, of Lawrence, Mass., a senior at Trinity College, in Hartford, Conn., has won a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship. The assistantship program is part of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program and “places U.S. students as English teaching assistants in schools or universities overseas, thus improving foreign students’ English language abilities and knowledge of the United States while increasing their own language skills and knowledge of the host country.”

 

Etheridge, the daughter of Linda Etheridge, is majoring in Hispanic Studies and minoring in African Studies at Trinity. The assistantship will allow her to teach English in Venezuela, where she plans to continue to study the intersection of African and Hispanic cultures in Latin America.

 

Since its inception in 1946, the Fulbright Program has provided more than 279,500 participants worldwide with the opportunity to observe each other’s political, economic, and cultural institutions, exchange ideas, and embark on joint ventures of importance to the general welfare of the world’s inhabitants. In the past 60 years, more than 105,000 students from the United States have benefited from the Fulbright experience.

 

The Fulbright Program is sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Financial support is provided by an annual appropriation from Congress to the Department of State, with significant contributions from participating governments and host institutions in the United States and abroad.

 

The Fulbright Program also awards grants to American teachers and faculty to do research, lecture, and teach overseas. In addition, nearly 3,400 foreign Fulbright students and scholars come to the United States annually to study, do research, and lecture at U.S. universities, colleges, and secondary schools.

 

For more information, Etheridge can be reached at: emma.etheridge@trincoll.edu.

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