In the past, I have never found myself at a loss for words. Yet, for some reason I was struck with a quiet tongue when it came to describing my experiences as a Black woman and a minority studying abroad and traveling throughout Europe. The challenge fell in differentiating between my experiences and those of other minority students.
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I’m one of many American students in Paris, and one of twenty in my program. But unlike the typical American student studying in Paris, I’m not white. I’m the only minority in my group of twenty students, and one of the few at Reid Hall, a center for a handful of American colleges. It’s still shocking to me that this imbalance exists and that no one talks about it.
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Anthony Jewett believes in the import-ance of international experiences, especially in shaping the cross-cultural competencies of global leaders. This belief is what gave birth to the Bardoli Global Initiative. 
Anthony Jewett and Michael Williams II are two of fifteen 2006 Fellows working as social agents of change in a different field and in a different part of the world and their organization was one of 12 projects that Echoing Green chose to fund in 2006.
