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June 15, 2011
 Muskie alumna Liana Sanamyan is working to improve the lives of chronically ill children in Armenia through education. As a 2006 Muskie fellow at Bemidji State University, Sanamyan increased her knowledge and skills in the field of special education through courses in curriculum design, behavioral disorders, diagnosis, assessment, and educational research. She also learned about practical program management while interning at Amnesty International, where she coordinated large-scale youth programming. Samnyan has built on those skills in her current work, planning and advocating for support programming for hospitalized children in Armenia. |
May 20, 2011
 For many international exchange fellows who study at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), their stories are those of growth. Quickly moving beyond the one-dimensional images of the US normally shown abroad, fellows at HBCUs often leave with a deeper understanding of America’s complex history, broad diversity, and continuing struggle for equality. Until two years ago, Tsovinar of Armenia had never thought much about race relations around the world. “Actually, I didn’t care,” she said. “I didn’t think it made a difference.” |
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May 20, 2011
 Russia has one of the fastest growing HIV/AIDS epidemics in the world: some experts project that 10% of the population could be infected by 2020. Many ideas and trends that have been effective in the West are neither known nor practiced in Russia, and healthcare workers are eager to learn different methods. Violetta Khabibulina, a 2002 Muskie alumna, is working to provide practitioners with new approaches to combating the spread of HIV/AIDS in Russia. |
May 17, 2011
 Maksym Klyuchar excelled as a Muskie public administration fellow at the University of Texas in Brownsville, a Hispanic-serving institution in southern Texas. Now a graduate, Klyuchar reflects on his experience at the University of Texas Brownsville in an interview on the university’s website. |
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May 6, 2011
 Artak Aleksanyan is no ordinary journalist. In just three years since his return to Armenia after completing a Muskie fellowship in the US, he not only founded one of Armenia’s most successful TV production companies, but also broke the mold of topics and themes covered by Armenian television. |
April 28, 2011
 Evgeny Ulyumdzhiev is a Muskie fellow studying law at the Northwestern University School of Law. Before arriving in the US in the fall of 2010, Ulyumdzhiev was an attorney in Russia. He plans to return home and continue practicing law next year. Ulyumdzhiev reflects on thecommunity service he completed this semester providing free legal advice to disadvantaged citizens. |
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April 15, 2011
 Electricity shortages provided an unlikely beginning to Elnura Emilkanova’s career as an educator for the blind. After experiencing the challenge of functioning without light, Emilkanova started to think about the challenging conditions for the blind in Kyrgyzstan. Inspired to act, Emilkanova then sought out a blind student who taught her Russian Braille. That student’s desire to learn English motivated Emilkanova to study English Braille and eventually become an English teacher for blind and visually impaired students. |
March 23, 2011
 Muskie fellow Svetlana Kurtova, a non-profit program manager from Russia, knows the importance of effective communications. While studying in American University’s Master of Public Administration program, Kurtova is expanding her creative and technical skills at ATV, American University’s student-run television station. |
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March 15, 2011
Sardorbek Abdukhalilov, a 2010 Muskie law fellow from Kyrgyzstan, is increasing his knowledge of mediation and negotiation through his studies in Penn State’s LL.M. program. |
March 9, 2011
 Every once in a while, you have the opportunity to connect two points in your life. Mine began when I was a junior in high school and was selected as a participant for the Symposium for Tomorrow’s Leaders program. Founded in 1977 by Senator Richard G. Lugar, the symposium is designed to “increase the awareness of current national and international issues among Indiana’s future leaders.” |
