Ariel Feucht

Feucht will graduate in May with a bachelor’s degree in international affairs and minors in business and Chinese and is currently preparing to apply to law school. With her Fulbright grant, she will be working in Taiwan as an English language teacher and be an ambassador on behalf of the U.S. to help facilitate international understanding and collaboration.

Outside of teaching English, Feucht hopes to learn more about the local culture and history, improve her Mandarin speaking skills, and engage with her new community through both service projects and taking part in local traditions and activities.

Millie Spencer

Spencer is a second-year doctoral student in the Geography department and works with the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR). She is currently doing field work in Concepción, Chile, analyzing glacier retreat and its impacts on downstream communities in south-central Chile.

The Chile Fulbright Science Initiative will enable her to expand her existing research in Chile further south to the region of Araucanía, where she plans to work with Mapuche-Pehuenche communities to document oral histories of glacier retreat and hydrological change, and illuminate how water insecurity disproportionately impacts Indigenous peoples.

Nic Tamayo

Tamayo will graduate in May with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and French with a minor in multicultural leadership studies. They currently work as an LGBTQ+ collections intern at History Colorado and as a content strategy intern for CU Boulder’s Strategic Relations and Communications department. They are also active in various on-campus organizations, such as CMCI Student Government and Multicultural Leadership Scholars.

Tamayo will serve as an English teaching assistant in Montpellier, France, where they’ll be able to continue working with students and helping give a voice to underrepresented communities.

Megan Thiede

Thiede graduated from the Leeds School of Business in 2019 and has since worked in strategy-focused roles across the outdoor retail, technology consulting, human-centered design and architecture industries.

She will pursue a master's degree in accessibility and diversity in digital services at Tampere University in Finland. Through research and collaboration with local non-governmental organizations, in direct partnership with UNESCO Learning Cities, she plans to explore how to co-design instructional practices for city residents to improve digital literacy.