Poonam Saxena India Fulbright Student, U.S.

"Being a Fulbrighter has enriched me more than I could ever have imagined. It has given me a wonderful opportunity to share my views, perceptions, and culture with people not only from the U.S., but from all over the world. It has taught me that I can make a difference; all I need to do is try and give it my best shot. In a world full of mistrust and prejudices, it is an uphill task to make people understand the importance of continuous dialogue and to promote the voices of sanity. Being a Fulbrighter provides the right forum for these voices to be heard by people in the right places— from important politicians to common folk, and keeps the hope of having a peaceful world alive."

Poonam Saxena, from Jaipur, India, is an alumna from the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) Program at Governor State University near Chicago, Illinois, where she taught the first Hindi classes in the school’s history. FTLA provides opportunities for young teachers of English to refine their teaching skills, increase their English language proficiency, and extend their knowledge of the of the United States while strengthening the instruction of languages like Arabic, Bengali, Hausa, Hindi, Indonesian, Swahili, Tajik, Turkish, Urdu and Uzbek at universities across the United States. For more information on the Fulbright FLTA Program please see http://www.flta.fulbrightonline.org.