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She led planning and implementation of the Fulbright Association’s 31st Annual Conference in Beijing (2008), an event designated as one of the official activities marking the 30th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and the United States. Before joining the Association, she was assistant director of Lutheran Resources Commission, Washington, D.C. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Michigan, Ms. Anderson has undergraduate degrees in French and in journalism and a master’s degree in linguistics. She studied in France on a University of Michigan undergraduate program. She has earned the Certified Association Executive designation from the American Society of Association Executives. Her writing has been published in the Miami Herald, the Chicago Sun Times, and Knight-Ridder newspapers and in Associations Now.
jane.anderson@fulbright.org
As executive director of the Fulbright Association, Jane L. Anderson has worked with Fulbright alumni volunteers throughout the world and provided professional leadership in launching the J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding, the Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medals, and the Selma Jeanne Cohen Fund for International Scholarship on Dance, an endowed lecture on dance scholarship.
naomi.parekh@fulbright.org
Named the association’s director, membership development in 2007, Naomi Parekh is a Fulbright alumna who as a U.S. Fulbright fellow in Jamaica in 2005 did independent research at a group home for HIV positive children and developed guidelines for hurricane disaster relief.
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Ms. Parekh received her Associate of Arts degree from Simon's Rock College of Bard and her Bachelor of Arts degree from Smith College, where she majored in anthropology and cultural health. During her senior year, Ms. Parekh enrolled in a program on traditional Chinese medicine and culture at the Yunnan Traditional Chinese Medical Hospital in Kunming, Yunnan, People's Republic of China. Ms. Parekh has spent more than 21 years as an active volunteer for "Thanksgiving...A Celebration of Life!," a charity in her hometown of Lowell, Mass. The charity raises funds to support abandoned children in areas of the Caribbean, Latin America, and Africa.
noelle.said@fulbright.org
Noelle Said joined the Fulbright Association as program assistant in 2008 and was named director, external relations in March 2009. She interned for several months at the International Women's Forum in Washington, D.C., before joining the Fulbright Association staff.
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Ms. Said graduated from the University of Southern California with a bachelor’s degree in international relations and Arabic and Middle Eastern studies. After spending a semester in Cairo, Egypt, studying Arab politics and history, she decided to extend her trip through the following semester and spent spring 2006 in Tunisia focused on learning conversational Arabic at the Habib Bourghiba Language Institute in Tunis. In 2002 and 2003, she enrolled in an immersion course in Mexican culture and language and became fluent in Spanish.
eliana.ramirez@fulbright.org
Eliana Ramirez has served as Fulbright Association office assistant since April 2010. She is currently enrolled full-time in the Art Institute of Washington and expects to receive a Bachelor of Arts degree in audio production in 2014.
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From 2006 to 2007, she attended Temple University where she completed courses in communications. Ms. Ramirez is from the Dominican Republic and travels to visit her family every other summer. While working for the Fulbright Association, she expects to become well informed about international education and exchanges.
