This information session provides prospective U.S. applicants with an in-depth look at the Fulbright Specialist Program and the opportunity to hear from a panel of Fulbright Specialist alumni who completed projects in the Sub Saharan Africa region.
Alumni panelists:
Chaunda Scott is a professor of human resource development at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, and a recognized workforce diversity expert. She earned a master’s degree in education administration focused in adult diversity education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a doctorate degree in organizational leadership focused in workforce diversity education from Teacher’s College, Columbia University.
Her scholarly research, publications, and teaching interests are in human resource development, workforce diversity education, antiracism education, and social justice practices. Most recently in 2020, she was a recipient of the Academy of Human Resource Development’s distinguished R. Wayne Pace Book of the Year Award. Additionally, she has received several diversity awards and been recognized as one of the Top 25 Education Professors in Michigan. In 2015, Dr. Scott received a Fulbright Specialist Award at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in South Africa where she engaged in staff diversity education and professional development.
Donna Oti is the co-founder of Communication and Culture, LLC, an organizational development firm, based in Madison, Alabama that helps small to medium size business improve communication effectiveness and organizational culture. As a journalist, communication professor, and organizational development consultant, Donna received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar award to University of Jos, Nigeria in 2004, after which she spent six subsequent years as a consultant for the University, and led initiatives to support a capacity building grant from the Carnegie Foundation of New York. She also served as a consultant for the West and Central African Research and Education Network, developing strategic communication plans and speaking at international conferences. Fifteen years later in 2019, Donna returned to the region as a Fulbright Specialist, collaborating with colleagues to facilitate new media workshops for journalism scholars and students in Accra, Ghana.