Munisa’s Dreams Come True

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Dedicated to FLEX alumna’s Mom, Zarina Ahmedova Munisa Ahmedova ‘15 Cocoa Beach, Florida/ Dushanbe, Tajikistan Education: currently studying for her BA at Eastern Florida State College After this...

Alexandr Hriptun ‘08: “Football is family”

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Alexandr Hriptun '08 Tiraspol, Moldova / Burleson, Texas Education: BA in English and German Philology from Moldova State University; MA in European Studies from Aarhus University...

Follow Your Heart: From Qarshi to Harvard Medical School

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Jamshid Jambulov’s journey from growing up in southern Uzbekistan to being accepted into a paid Research Fellowship at Harvard Medical School began with applying...

Mikheil Benidze ’06: ‘I want to see real democracy in Georgia’

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Mikheil Benidze '06 Tbilisi, Georgia / Adrian, MI Education: BA in Business Administration from the Tbilisi State University, MBA in Business Administration from Porto Business School,...

Ayaulym Tursynkhnova ’17: Change Starts Locally

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Ayaulym Tursynkhanova’17 (Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan /Beresford, SD) is both a FLEX and ACCESS Program alumna. She is a former City Representative (CR) of Ust-Kamenogorsk, and,...

Big Business Executive Zarina Chekirbaeva ’98

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Zarina Chekirbaeva ’98 (Naryn, Kyrgyzstan / Glen Ellyn, IL) Education: BA in Business Administration from the American University of Central Asia, MA in Public Administration...

Conflict Transformation Activist Lilit Gizhlaryan ’09

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Lilit Gizhlaryan ‘09 Verin Karmiraghbyur, Armenia / Rosly, South Dakota Education: MA in Spanish Language and Literature from Yerevan State University. ‘I decided to continue listening’ What is...

Abdulvahhobi Muminjoniyon ‘09: Athlete and Activist

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If you ask Abdulvahhobi Muminjoniyon ’09 (Duashanbe, Tajikistan/ Houston, TX), the FLEX program changed his life. However, since his return to Dushanbe in 2009,...

An Interview with Poet, Scholar and Translator Iryna Shuvalova ’02 from Ukraine

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Can folk and modern poetry help to overcome post-conflict trauma? Iryna Shuvalova '02 Kyiv, Ukraine / Athens, TN Education (university, degrees, major, area of specialization): Cambridge University,...

Interview with Notable Alumnus Hikmat Aliyev ’94

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Hikmat Aliyev ’94 (Baku, Azerbaijan/La Harpe, IL) is an alumnus of the first cohort of the FLEX program.  After his exchange year, Hikmat returned...
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