2000 Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal Recipient

As an author, photographer and musician, Ms. Alda both engages and educates her audiences. Her award-winning children’s books, widely published photographs and essays, and nationally recognized documentary, Bravo Gloria, encourage viewing the world in new ways. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Hunter College, Ms. Alda was selected as a Fulbright scholar to Germany in 1954. She studied clarinet at the Cologne Conservatory of Music. Ms. Alda began her diverse and distinguished artistic career as a clarinetist with the Houston Symphony under Leopold Stokowski.