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Mariana Pasquet Testimonial Posted by: Parker Brocker-Knapp / April 9, 2023 April 9, 2023 By PLU Uruguay Project Team Open English TranslationOpen Spanish Transcript Read Previous Diego Perelmuter Testimonial Read Next Enrique Shapira Testimonial LATEST POSTS Hilda Waksman Testimonial May 3, 2023 Enrique Shapira Testimonial April 20, 2023 Diego Perelmuter Testimonial April 1, 2023 Giza Alterwajn de Goldfarb Testimonial February 20, 2023

Diego Perelmuter Testimonial Posted by: Parker Brocker-Knapp / April 1, 2023 April 1, 2023 By PLU Uruguay Project Team Open English TranslationOpen Spanish Transcript Read Previous Giza Alterwajn de Goldfarb Testimonial Read Next Mariana Pasquet Testimonial LATEST POSTS Hilda Waksman Testimonial May 3, 2023 Enrique Shapira Testimonial April 20, 2023 Mariana Pasquet Testimonial April 9, 2023 Giza Alterwajn de Goldfarb Testimonial February 20, 2023

March 19, 2012 Karissa Bryant ’03 with school girl at Sacred Heart Boarding School in Shillong, India. Here Bryant is asking the girls who live at the school what they wanted to be when they grew up. In the evening they would share Khasi songs with Bryant and she would teach them English songs. (Photo courtesy of Karissa Bryant) Alumna works to teach, train students in India By Katie Scaff ’13 Since graduating from PLU in 2003, music and vocal performance major Karissa Bryant has travelled the

– ETA in Ibagué, Colombia Hylander – from Seattle – double majored in Hispanic studies and global studies. She has accepted a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) in Ibagué, Colombia, where she will be teaching part-time as an ETA at Universidad de Ibagué and doing part-time research in the community about U.S.–Colombia free trade policies. “To me, receiving a Fulbright grant means that I will help foster cross-cultural understanding between Colombians that I will meet and myself as a

third-grader and then spent a J-Term in Cologne and semester in Berlin. This fall, each will return to Germany on 10-month Fulbright English Teaching Assistantships. Additionally, Jennifer Henrichsen ’07 received a Fulbright research award to complete an advance master’s degree in international and European security in a joint program between the University of Geneva’s European Institute and the Geneva Center for Security Policy in Switzerland. Her research will focus on press protection in conflict

Fulbright program, bringing PLU’s total number of Fulbrights since 1975 to 100. That 100th Fulbright, Brianna Walling ’14, said she was speechless when she received the email from the Fulbright committee that informed her that come next March, she would be travelling to Argentina for about nine months to teach English there. “I was hiking up Mount Rainier when I found out from a friend on Facebook,” she laughed before walking across the Tacoma Dome stage on May 24 to receive her degree in Political

Sara Piatnica Testimonial (Part 1) Posted by: kaufmard / January 28, 2023 January 28, 2023 By PLU Uruguay Project Team Sara Piatnica, 91, talks about why she, her mother, and her siblings migrated to Uruguay after the war, about her father’s family, and about reparations. Open English TranslationOpen Spanish Transcript Read Previous Sara Piatnica Testimonial (Part 2) Read Next Eva Nathan Testimonial LATEST POSTS Hilda Waksman Testimonial May 3, 2023 Enrique Shapira Testimonial April 20, 2023

Sara Piatnica Testimonial (Part 3) Posted by: kaufmard / January 27, 2023 January 27, 2023 By PLU Uruguay Project Team Sara Piatnica, 91, describes making a new life in Uruguay. She explains her identities as a survivor and a Jewish Uruguayan. She talks about her husband, children, and grandchildren. Open English TranslationOpen Spanish Transcript Read Next Sara Piatnica Testimonial (Part 2) LATEST POSTS Hilda Waksman Testimonial May 3, 2023 Enrique Shapira Testimonial April 20, 2023 Mariana

Eva Nathan Testimonial Posted by: kaufmard / January 29, 2023 January 29, 2023 By PLU Uruguay Project TeamEva Nathan, 59, describes growing up in Uruguay as the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. Her mother did not talk about the Holocaust for decades, but Eva says it was always “implicit.”Read English TranscriptRead Spanish Transcript Read Previous Sara Piatnica Testimonial (Part 1) Read Next Irene Rzadzinksa Testimonial LATEST POSTS Hilda Waksman Testimonial May 3, 2023 Enrique Shapira

Sara Piatnica Testimonial (Part 2) Posted by: kaufmard / January 27, 2023 January 27, 2023 By PLU Uruguay Project Team Sara Piatnica, 91, describes antisemitism in Poland, moving to Tykocin, and being taken to Russia. She talks about her parents’ strategies for survival and her arrival in Uruguay. Open English TranslationOpen Spanish Transcript Read Previous Sara Piatnica Testimonial (Part 3) Read Next Sara Piatnica Testimonial (Part 1) LATEST POSTS Hilda Waksman Testimonial May 3, 2023 Enrique