Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Program

Mathew Barry Holloway hails from Como, Mississippi. He is the founder of Conversations by Courage, a social transformation practice that rewrites the narrative of who we are by reconstructing our sense of belonging. In essence, his work focuses on how to work with cultural groups to reclaim and preserve their cultural assets, practices, and history and train groups, organizations, and nations to reconstruct cultural paradigms.

With a background in program development and training, Mathew has led a wide array of workshops and projects in educational, corporate, and community settings on topics such as youth development, conflict transformation, intercultural education, community engagement, race and culture, and others. To enhance his practice, he has received training from the Asset-Based Community Development Institute, and the Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation. Lastly, he is an alumnus of the Obama Foundation Community Leadership Corps.

In addition to holding a B.A. degree in sociology, he is currently pursuing a master’s degree in conflict management and resolution from the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies at the University of San Diego. There, he studies the interrelationship of cultural trauma and violence and how it impacts memory and identity to facilitate the process of individuals and groups coming to a truer sense of belonging.

Stephanie Jimenez is a writer, editor, and communications professional. Her first novel, They Could Have Named Her Anything, was published by Little A Books in 2019, and her essays have been published in The Guardian, Oprah Magazine, Catapult, and more. She’s earned scholarships to attend several writing conferences, including the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference and the Emerging Writers Intensive for Fiction at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.

She has had extensive communications and media relations experience in government and nonprofit settings, most recently as acting director of communications at the New York City Mayor’s Office of Community Mental Health. Stephanie is also an advocate for reproductive justice and volunteers with the Latina Institute.

Stephanie is an alumna of the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant program in Medellín, Colombia. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in political science from Scripps College in Claremont, California.

Eva Wingren is a member of Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), a national network of groups and individuals organizing white people for racial and economic justice. SURJ is answering the call from activists of color to “organize our own,” providing a structure that supports millions of white people in taking sustained action in partnership with BIPOC-led organizations.

After growing up in Seattle and spending significant time in the Mid-Atlantic, Eva now lives in Madison, Wisconsin. She currently works at Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin as a donor relations officer. Her professional experience includes public policy advocacy, fund development, grantmaking, facilitation, and community engagement. She is passionate about moving the field of fundraising towards applying principles of community organizing to the task of raising money and helping donors get into the right relationship with the causes they fund and the people whose work they support. She holds a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Washington.

In 2009, she served as a Fulbright English teaching assistant in Malaysia. Embedded at a rural secondary school, she introduced American culture to her students through a variety of methods, such as cooking, art, music, computers, and theater games.