By Rada Kaneva Over two energizing winter days, U.S. Fulbright grantees from across Bulgaria gathered in Sofia for the Midterm Conference—a joyful pause to reflect, reconnect, and recharge at the halfway point of their grant journeys. The conference opened with warm...
Interview by Iliana Dimitrova A national champion beach wrestler, award-winning writer, and dedicated educator—these are just a few of the many roles Samantha “Sam” Hauff embraces as this year’s Fulbright | America for Bulgaria English Teaching Assistant at the...
By Iliana Dimitrova Facing a classroom full of teenagers can be daunting, almost as scary as walking across hot coals for the uninitiated. Luckily for the new cohort of Fulbright English Teaching Assistants (ETAs), the Commission staff planned a week of fun and...
Interview by Viktoria Dailova Although she set foot for the first time in Bulgaria just a month ago, California native Hayden Hill has been hearing about the country since she was a child, thanks to her Bulgarian-American grandmother. This family connection inspired...
Interview by Viktoria Dailova A cozy town an hour outside Sofia, Pravets is famous in Bulgaria for being the birthplace of two things: the communist-era leader Todor Zhivkov and the country’s first personal computer, aptly named the Pravetz (and suspiciously similar...
Interview by Rada Kaneva Dr. Petia Yanchulova Merica-Jones has lived not just one extraordinary life, but several. A two-time Olympic athlete in beach volleyball (Sydney 2000, Athens 2004), she later pivoted to an entirely different frontier — astrophysics. Today, as...
