FLEX Fashion Designer’s Thank You
Akmaral Arzybaeva '07
Tashkumyr, Kyrgyzstan/Needham, MA
I was a six-year old girl who would bring candies from home and sell them to classmates at school until my...
Lawyers’ Dream Came True
Vasylyna Odnorih '09
Zarichchya, Ukraine/Williamsburg, IA
Kyiv-Mohyla Team participating in the Philip C. Jessup Law Moot Court Competition.
«Philip C. Jessup Law Moot Court Competition is...
FLEX Alumni Visit a Children’s Shelter in Baku
One of the most long-lasting lessons alumni learn during their FLEX year is the importance of volunteering. After returning back home alumni regularly volunteer...
A Lifetime In A Year
Being an exchange student is exciting. It is the best year of my life so far. No doubt. And it's also the worst. No...
“FLEX has opened up so many doors”
Born and raised in Telavi, Georgia, I moved to the United States with the help of the Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) Program, a US...
FLEX Alumni Reunion at the Youth Global Forum in Paris
North Kazakhstan Alumni Coordinator Aknur Berdigulova '14 (Karaganda, Kazakhstan - Pearland, Texas) received a fellowship to attend the Youth Global Forum from December...
Colors of India
Monsoon, yoga, Ghandi, curry and spicy foods, 200% humidity level, monkeys walking in the city center, elephants, holy cows in the middle of highway roads, festivals, spontaneous temples, Taj Mahal, basmati rice, unbelievable traffic,
New Year’s Resolution: Tajikistan’s Alumni Fill the World with Love
Starting in 2013, FLEX alumni in Tajikistan formed a relationship with the Hissor Orphanage, an orphanage that is located outside of Dushanbe, Tajikistan’s capital,...
My Mexican Brother: 11 Years of Friendship
Alisa Klots Baranova ’99
Perm, Russia/ Spokane, WA
AlissaKlots yandex ru
Every FLEX student had a host family. Most of us had siblings. So did...
Food for Thought
Natalia Zhikina ‘01
North Schuykill, PA/St. Petersburg, Russia
North-West Academy of Public Administration, St. Petersburg
From the pictures of her 2001 FLEX year in North Schuykill, PA,...