A Program of the U.S. Department of State
City University of New York (CUNY) System
Institutions in City University of New York (CUNY) System
| College of Staten Island CUNY Staten Island, New York |
| CUNY Bernard M Baruch College New York, New York |
| CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College New York, New York |
| CUNY Bronx Community College Bronx, New York |
| CUNY Brooklyn College Brooklyn, New York |
| CUNY City College New York, New York |
| CUNY Graduate School and University Center New York, New York |
| CUNY Hostos Community College Bronx, New York |
| CUNY Hunter College New York, New York |
| CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice New York, New York |
| CUNY Kingsborough Community College Brooklyn, New York |
| CUNY LaGuardia Community College Long Island City, New York |
| CUNY Lehman College Bronx, New York |
| CUNY Medgar Evers College Brooklyn, New York |
| CUNY New York City College of Technology Brooklyn, New York |
| CUNY Queens College Queens, New York |
| CUNY Queensborough Community College Bayside, New York |
| CUNY School of Law Long Island City, New York |
| CUNY Stella and Charles Guttman Community College New York, New York |
| CUNY York College Jamaica, New York |
Previous Recipients
| Year | Name | Language | Site | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Abdulla Ahmed | Arabic | Amman, Jordan | CUNY Hunter College |
| 2022 | Dodie Lee Weinberg | Arabic | Tangier, Morocco | CUNY Hunter College |
| 2022 | Rachel Ferretti | Arabic | Ibri, Oman | CUNY City College |
| 2022 | Catalina Bedoya | Chinese | Changchun, China | CUNY Hunter College |
| 2022 | Samantha Carter | Chinese | Dalian, China | CUNY Hunter College |
| 2022 | Angelina Coronado | Portuguese | Florianopolis, Brazil | CUNY City College |
| 2022 | Emily Thomason | Turkish | Ankara, Turkey | CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College |
| 2022 | Joseph Pavlisko | Turkish | Ankara, Turkey | CUNY Hunter College |
| 2022 | Libby Pollak | Turkish | Ankara, Turkey | CUNY LaGuardia Community College |
| 2021 | Anes Ahmed | Arabic | Meknes, Morocco | College of Staten Island CUNY |
| 2021 | Makinoon Sami | Arabic | Meknes, Morocco | CUNY Bernard M Baruch College |
| 2021 | Sadaf Latif | Arabic | Tangier, Morocco | CUNY Lehman College |
| 2021 | Michael Cala | Chinese | Changchun, China | CUNY Bernard M Baruch College |
| 2021 | Sienna Rodriguez-Truley | Chinese | Dalian, China | CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College |
| 2021 | Angela Chan | Korean | Gwangju, Korea | CUNY Queens College |
| 2021 | Zainab Farooqi | Korean | Busan, Korea | CUNY Queens College |
| 2021 | Annmarie Gajdos | Swahili | Arusha, Tanzania | CUNY Bernard M Baruch College |
| 2021 | Tatiana Ades | Turkish | Ankara, Turkey | CUNY Graduate School and University Center |
| 2021 | Aimee Quinlan | Urdu | Lucknow, India | CUNY City College |
| 2019 | Mario Altamirano Jr. | Chinese | Suzhou, China | CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College |
| 2019 | Loretta Violante | Korean | Busan, South Korea | CUNY City College |
| 2019 | Sally Li | Korean | Busan, South Korea | CUNY Hunter College |
| 2018 | Atsuko Sakurai | Arabic | Amman, Jordan | CUNY City College |
| 2018 | Fatoumata Bah | Arabic | Tangier, Morocco | CUNY Hunter College |
| 2018 | Saim Siddiqui | Arabic | Meknes, Morocco | CUNY Hunter College |
| 2018 | Shovan Bala | Arabic | Amman, Jordan | CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice |
| 2018 | Libby Ho | Chinese | Changchun, China | CUNY City College |
| 2018 | Telijah Patterson | Chinese | Xi'an, China | CUNY LaGuardia Community College |
| 2018 | Elizabeth Hetterly | Hindi | Jaipur, India | CUNY Hunter College |
| 2018 | Ma Veronica Pacheco | Korean | Busan, South Korea | CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice |
| 2017 | Kevin Tang | Arabic | Tangier, Morocco | CUNY Hunter College |
| 2017 | Olivia Sztanga | Arabic | Tangier, Morocco | CUNY Bernard M Baruch College |
| 2017 | Florimond Le Goupil-Maier | Chinese | Suzhou, China | CUNY Hunter College |
| 2017 | Nicole Rojas Aparicio | Chinese | Changchun, China | CUNY Hunter College |
| 2017 | Cristopher Soto | Hindi | Jaipur, India | CUNY Lehman College |
| 2017 | Kelly Bayas | Urdu | Lucknow, India | CUNY Hunter College |
| 2016 | Alexandra Ehrreich | Arabic | Amman, Jordan | CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice |
| 2016 | Faiza Masood | Arabic | Meknes, Morocco | CUNY Hunter College |
| 2016 | Hajara Masood | Arabic | Ibri, Oman | CUNY Hunter College |
| 2016 | Hasin Ishraque | Bangla | Kolkata, India | CUNY Bernard M Baruch College |
| 2016 | Alina Shen | Chinese | Tainan, Taiwan | CUNY City College |
| 2016 | Omar Albert | Chinese | Changchun, China | CUNY Hunter College |
| 2016 | Ivana Lazaroska | Turkish | Baku, Azerbaijan | CUNY City College |
| 2015 | Patrick Harned | Arabic | Madaba, Jordan | CUNY Hunter College |
| 2015 | Samuel Rubinstein | Arabic | Meknes, Morocco | CUNY Bernard M Baruch College |
| 2015 | Stephanie Love | Arabic | Madaba, Jordan | CUNY Graduate School and University Center |
| 2015 | Yelena Suponya | Chinese | Beijing, China | CUNY Hunter College |
| 2015 | Ilana Gelb | Hindi | Jaipur, India | CUNY Bernard M Baruch College |
| 2015 | Javier Picayo | Indonesian | Malang, Indonesia | CUNY Hunter College |
| 2015 | Steven Butler | Indonesian | Malang, Indonesia | CUNY Graduate School and University Center |
| 2015 | William Tsuda | Japanese | Hikone, Japan | CUNY LaGuardia Community College |
| 2015 | Matthew Marcus | Urdu | Lucknow, India | CUNY Hunter College |
| 2014 | Mariya Komartsova | Arabic | Rabat, Morocco | CUNY City College |
| 2014 | Michael Chance | Arabic | Ibri, Oman | CUNY City College |
| 2013 | Elizabeth Cummings | Arabic | Rabat, Morocco | CUNY City College |
| 2013 | Michelle Balon | Arabic | Meknes, Morocco | CUNY Hunter College |
| 2013 | Hunter Gross | Chinese | Qingdao, China | CUNY City College |
| 2013 | Umila Singh | Hindi | Jaipur, India | CUNY New York City College of Technology |
| 2013 | Michael Oman-Reagan | Indonesian | Malang, Indonesia | CUNY Hunter College |
| 2013 | Jeanne Michaels | Japanese | Himeji, Japan | CUNY Hunter College |
| 2013 | Daniel Weissglass | Korean | Wonju, South Korea | CUNY City College |
| 2013 | Brian Bond | Punjabi | Chandigarh, India | CUNY City College |
| 2012 | Galina Rudik | Arabic | Tunis, Tunisia | CUNY Hunter College |
| 2012 | Monica Steinberg | Azerbaijani | Baku, Azerbaijan | CUNY Graduate School and University Center |
| 2012 | Jie Dong | Chinese | Xi'an, China | CUNY New York City College of Technology |
| 2012 | Ishtiaq Alam | Hindi | Jaipur, India | CUNY City College |
| 2012 | Joshua Trinidad | Japanese | Kyoto, Japan | CUNY Hunter College |
| 2012 | Diana Panora | Korean | Jeonju, South Korea | CUNY New York City College of Technology |
| 2011 | Bradford Garvey | Arabic | Muscat, Oman | CUNY Graduate School and University Center |
| 2011 | Bret Tonelli | Arabic | Amman, Jordan | CUNY Hunter College |
| 2011 | Valentine Sanders | Arabic | Muscat, Oman | CUNY City College |
| 2011 | Ann Marie Spencer | Bangla | Dhaka, Bangladesh | CUNY Graduate School and University Center |
| 2011 | Jay Oppenheim | Russian | Vladimir, Russia | CUNY Graduate School and University Center |
| 2010 | Meghan Reutzel | Indonesian | Malang, Indonesia | CUNY Graduate School and University Center |
| 2010 | Catherine Detrow | Punjabi | Chandigarh, India | CUNY Hunter College |
| 2009 | Maria Komartsova | Arabic | Alexandria, Egypt | CUNY City College |
| 2009 | Tracy Neiman | Arabic | Cairo, Egypt | CUNY Hunter College |
| 2009 | Jameel Haque | Urdu | Lucknow, India | CUNY Graduate School and University Center |
| 2008 | Al Kader | Bangla | Dhaka, Bangladesh | CUNY Bernard M Baruch College |
| 2007 | Besnik Sinani | Arabic | Tangier, Morocco | CUNY City College |
| 2006 | Priya Surya | Turkish | Istanbul, Turkey | CUNY Queens College |
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