TEDxFulbright Information

The Fulbright Association continues the Fulbright Program international exchange experience by promoting opportunities for life-long learning, collaborative networking, and service at home and abroad for alumni, supporters and friends of the Fulbright program. Fulbright Association members form the active constituency helping to promote and preserve Fulbright exchanges to ensure that they continue to benefit future generations. Established on February 27, 1977, the Fulbright Association is a private, nonprofit and nonpolitical organization whose members are Fulbright Program alumni and friends of international education. The Association supports and promotes international educational and cultural exchange, and the ideal most associated with the Fulbright name mutual understanding among the peoples of the world. The Fulbright Association currently has approximately 6,500 individual members, about two-thirds of whom are life members. Approximately 200 institutional members, including colleges, universities, and international educational organizations throughout the country, also support the Fulbright Association. Our 60+ local affiliate chapters host more than 230 programs for visiting Fulbrighters and alumni throughout the country each year. Programs range from education events, panel sessions, career development seminars, and music and art presentations to global health and science conferences, local networking, volunteer activities, community engagement, and a numerous other interesting events and initiatives. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and ...