Continued Fulbright Connections: Media Literacy in Ukraine: Summer 2026

One of the most important aspects of applying to a U.S. Fulbright grant is noting what you will do when you return to your host country. This is often a blindspot within applications I see over and over again.

How will you share your Fulbright experience with others back home? With professional organizations? How will you disseminate your project locally and with those you served abroad? What will you do to further promote the Fulbright program and encourage others to participate by promoting cross cultural dialogue and mutual understanding? Of course these are vital details we can consider in a consulting session, which absolutely needs to be developed and clearly articulated in your application.

Here is an excellent example of what cross cultural collaboration can continue to look like once the grant is completed.

During the summer 2026 I spent 3.5 weeks teaching media literacy workshops in western Ukraine, where I also served as a Scholar 2017-2018. I wanted to return to Ukraine in a time of war and show my continued solidarity with the country and its democratic future. I collaborated with my friend and colleague Dr. Nataliia Goshylyk, a lecturer at U.C. Berkeley (who was formally a Fulbrighter there as well) whom I met and conducted various projects alongside when I was in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. This collaboration is an excellent example that Fulbright collaborations can continue long after grant deadlines end in sometimes very powerful ways.

Fulbright Ukraine summarized the experience quite nicely with this short recap: The Enduring Power of Exchange: Fulbright Alumni Reunite to Deliver Media Literacy Workshops in Ukraine April-May 2026