Travel is an essential component of the Foundation Fellowship. Fellows enjoy unique, immersive learning opportunities all over the world through individual travel grants, spring break group travel-study, and a study abroad Maymester after the first undergraduate year.

Individual Travel Grants | Impact of Travel Experiences
Spring Group Travel-Study | First-Year Oxford Maymester

Christina Faust, FF Alumna ’09; Mitchell Scholar, National University of Ireland; PhD Candidate, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
“I was born at St. Mary’s Hospital in Athens, Georgia and had lived in the same house my whole life. I saw college as an opportunity for new experiences, and I thought that meant I needed to move out of Athens, out of Georgia. Ironically, the best way to get away from Athens (although I love it), was to go to school there. I knew I could do a semester abroad or volunteer abroad during the summers at another university, but the breadth and depth of experiences that every Fellow had was really alluring for me. I hadn’t traveled outside of North America before college, but through the Fellowship I have traveled, volunteered, researched, and interned in thirteen different countries on seven continents. And I wasn’t trying to ‘collect them all.’ I was able to learn so much about myself and the variety of conservation efforts that exist around the globe. Traveling with professors and going out solo was instrumental in shaping what I want to pursue in life.

“These international experiences and independent research opportunities are no doubt the reason I have been offered amazing opportunities outside of the Foundation Fellowship. I’m starting a PhD program at Princeton this fall with the founder of wildlife disease ecology. He rarely takes students but was excited about my experiences through the Fellowship. I’ll be working on malaria in Borneo. This focus stemmed from a spring break trip with the Fellows and Dr. Pete Brosius to Borneo to look at indigenous land rights. In my (biased) opinion, UGA is the best college experience in the U.S. and has afforded me incredible opportunities post graduation.”

Grants for Individual Travel 2010-2011

Tori Akin - Austria; France; Germany; Greece; Italy; Spain
Elizabeth Allan - Brisbane, Queensland, and Sydney, Australia
Juan Cardoza-Oquendo - Quito, Ecuador
Stephanie Chapman - Brasstown, NC
Sara De La Torre Berón - Paris and Montpellier, France
JoyEllen Freeman - Argentina; Uruguay
Smitha Ganeshan - Lima, Peru
Camille Gregory - Washington, DC
Anisha Hegde - Bangalore, Mumbai, New Delhi, India
Dana Higgins - Australia; Italy
Mir Inaamullah - Brisbane, Queensland, and Sydney, Australia
Hillary Kingsley - Brevard, NC
Logan Krusac - Harbin, Kunming, and Nanjing, China
Morgann Lyles - Montreal, Canada; Washington, DC
Aaron Marshburn - Prague, Czech Republic
Bethany McCain - Argentina; England; Uruguay
Ryan McLynn - Cusco, Peru
Tatum Mortimer - Alice Springs, Brisbane, Darwin, Great Barrier Reef, Northern Territory, and Sydney, Australia
Luke Mosley - Irbid, Jordan
Rohan  Mukhopadhyay - London, England
Bryn Murphy - Botswana; Indonesia; Singapore; South Africa
Muktha Natrajan - Brisbane, Queensland, and Sydney, Australia
Todd Pierson - Guatemala; Oman; United Arab Emirates; Arizona, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, New Mexico, and Ohio
Derek Ponticelli - England; Tanzania
Sabrina Ragaller - Brisbane, Queensland, and Sydney, Australia
Ben Reynolds - Cortona, Italy
Jacob Rooney - Austria; France; Germany; Greece; Italy; Spain
Matthew Sellers - Oxford, England; Washington, DC
Anuj Shukla - England; India; South Africa
Will Stephenson - San Francisco, CA
Buck Trible - Costa Rica; Nicaragua; Panama
Megan  Unger - Costa Rica; Nicaragua; Savannah, MO
Jacqueline Van De Velde - Kakumdo Village, Ghana
Hemali Vin - Brisbane, Australia
Thomas Ward - Botswana; South Africa
Lance White - Argentina; Guatemala
Addison Wright - Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Tracy Yang - Alice Springs, Brisbane, Darwin, Great Barrier Reef, Northern Territory, and Sydney, Australia
Brittany Young - Guatemala; Spain
Sheena Zhang - Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
David Zweig - London, England; San Francisco, CA

Robyn Painter, FF Alumna ’98, Staff Attorney, Georgia Resource Center

“Being a Foundation Fellow totally changed my life and opened the world to me. I was the first person in my family to attend college, and the Fellowship provided me with support and guidance that truly expanded the possibilities for my life. The travel, combined with the intensive first-rate educational opportunities and support, allowed me to graduate from college feeling that my options were limitless and that there was no reason I couldn’t pursue whatever career I wanted. Immediately after college, I did an internship at the United Nations Office for the High Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, which I secured via connections made through the Foundation Fellowship. This experience was a heady and challenging one, but because of my background with the Fellowship, I was not intimidated by the international setting and threw myself into it. In Geneva, I was assigned to work on the Racism and Extrajudicial Executions mandates. My exposure to these topics formed the basis for my eventual decision to work on human rights within the criminal justice system in the United States.”

Grants for Individual Travel 2009-2010

Elizabeth Allan - Peru; Morocco
Betsy Allen - India; Tanzania
Jaime Ayers - Xian, China
Juan Cardoza-Oquendo - Santos, Brazil
Stephanie Chapman - France; Germany; Great Britain; Italy; Spain
Katie Cuadrado - Arusha, Tanzania
Patrick Fitzmaurice - London, England
Ryan Friday - Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Lucy Fu - Xalapa, Mexico
Joshua Gloster - Weimer and Munich, Germany
Geales Goodwin - Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Marcus Hines - Mandeville, Jamaica
Anne Karam - Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Hillary Kingsley - Sevilla, Spain
Matt Levenson - Rwanda; Tanzania; Uganda                         
Phoeny Li - Guatemala; Costa Rica; Washington, DC
Morgann Lyles - Benin; Guatemala
John Marshall - Phoenix, AZ
Aaron Marshburn - Cape Town, Durban, and Johannesburg, South Africa
Calley Mersmann - Costa Rica; Cleveland, OH
Allon Mordel - Paris, France
Tatum Mortimer - Arusha, Tanzania
Luke Mosley - India; South Africa; Tanzania
Phillip Mote - India, South Africa; Tanzania
Rohan Mukhopadhyay - Mumbai, India
Bryn Murphy - Lima, Peru
Muktha Natrajan - Windhoek, Namibia
Rachel Pocock - Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Hank Schwartz - India
Matt Sellers - Washington, DC
Trey Sinyard - India; South Africa; Tanzania
Alex Squires - Kruger National Park, South Africa     
Will Stevenson - Gorizia, Italy
Claire Underwood - Greece; Turkey
Hemali Vin - Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Thomas Ward - Lander, WY
Tracy Yang - New York, NY
Sheena Zhang - Prescott, AZ; Chicago, IL
David Zweig - Guacimo, San José, San Luis and Limón, Costa Rica

grants for individual travel 2008-2009

Chike Akoh - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Matt Bailey - La Serena, Chile
Amanda Brouillette - Cape Coast, Ghana
Sarah Caruana - Amman, Jordan and San Francisco, CA
CiCi Cheng - Phuket, Thailand
Katie Cuadrado - Mari El Republic, Russia
Amy Davis - Tainan, Taiwan
Christina Faust - Antarctica and Chile
Ryan Friday - Peru and Ecuador                                            
Lucy Fu - Arusha, Tanzania
Beau Gilmore - Lima and Cusco, Peru
Peter Horn - Kpando, Ghana
Dave Howcroft - Taiwan, United Kingdom, and France
Aaron Marshburn - Thailand, China, and Cambodia
Connor McCarthy - Moshi, Dar-es-salaam, Zanzibar, and Arusha, Tanzania
Sharon McCoy - Chile and Washington, DC
Caitlin McLaughlin - Cusco, Peru
Josh McLaurin - Washington, DC
Calley Mersmann - Peru, Ecuador, and Costa Rica
Zoe Meroney - France, Austria, and Czech Republic
Allon Mordel - Berlin, Germany
Phillip Mote - Peru
Ginny Newman - Beijing, China
Cleveland Piggott - Salvador, Brazil
Rachel Pocock - Cuzco, Peru
Lucas Puente - Washington, DC
Sabrina Ragaller - Antigua, Guatemala 
Beth Riggle - Bagamoyo, Tanzania
Bobby Rosenbleeth - London, United Kingdom
Trey Sinyard - Oxford, England
Jenny Taylor - Greece and Germany
Eli Tedesco - Mongolia, Turkey, and New Orleans, LA
Robert Thrasher - Italy, Peru, and Washington, DC
Claire Underwood - Cuzco, Peru
Marlee Waxelbaum - Netherlands and United Kingdom
Jasmaine Williams - St. Lucia, South Africa
Tracy Yang - Guatemala and Nicaragua