Kylie Eiselstein '19 Receives Fulbright U.S. Student Award for 2024-25

originally posted by the University of Southern California

Kylie Eiselstein '19, a 2023 graduate of University of Southern California, has received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to serve as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Indonesia for the 2024-2025 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Kylie graduated from USC in May 2023 with a Bachelor of Art in Cinema and Media Studies and a minor in Philosophy. From 2023-2024, she completed a service term with Americorps, tutoring in under-resourced schools in San Jose, California. She will integrate her love of cinema and media with her teaching experience to assist English teaching in high school institutions in Indonesia while gaining an engaging understanding of Indonesia’s culture and citizens.

Kylie’s teaching assignment is at SMA Santo Paulus, a private, Catholic secondary school, in Pontianak. It is the capital city of West Kalimantan, which is located on the largest island in Indonesia, Kalimantan, and directly on the equator. It is a highly diverse city with many different ethnic groups present. Kylie looks forward to gaining more experience teaching abroad.

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