will.i.am on Study Abroad and the 100K Strong Initiative

On July 29, 2011 the United States Department of State announced that will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas will direct a concert later this year in Beijing in support of the 100,000 Strong Initiative.  Below are two short videos of will.i.am talking about the importance of study abroad and international travel with a focus on inter-city youth experiencing these opportunities.








Now, I'm not a huge Black Eyed Peas fan (my wife and kids are fans so I know a bit about them and their music).  However, I am a big fan of their song Where is the Love? from 2003 and if you listen to the song and lyrics (which I believe were created by will.i.am) then you can see that he has always embraced the idea of international/intercultural understanding.  Anyways, enjoy the song...

Always nice to see a past Fulbright recipient's picture on the U.S. Student Program website!

I'm entering my 11th year as the Fulbright Program Adviser at the University of Chicago.  I LOVE talking to students about their Fulbright application plans and helping them understand the program to put forward the strongest application possible.  I frequently visit the Fulbright U.S. Student website and I always get a smile on my face when I see the picture of a former student that I worked with on her Fulbright application, and went to Germany on an English Teaching Assistantship grant in 2003, cycle into the site.

Several years ago I was working on the Allabroad.us project for the Center for Global Education at Loyola Marymount University and knew that I had to add Priscilla to the group of mentors answering questions about race and ethnicity issues while studying abroad.  You can access Priscilla's profile here.