Jennifer Eliezer (COM‘14 , Wheelock‘18) is a recipient of a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award. She will be putting her master’s degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) to use as an English teaching assistant. Eliezer will be teaching post-secondary students in rural Costa Rica.

“Through genuine mentorship and support from BU Wheelock faculty I gained the same confidence I have spent my career so far instilling in my own students,” says Eliezer. “I was able to harness my strengths and recognize the value I can bring to a program like Fulbright.”

Faculty member Kate Frankel was Eliezer’s graduate advisor at BU Wheelock. “The Fulbright award is a wonderful opportunity for others to have the opportunity to know and learn alongside Jennifer, just as many of us at BU have done over the past several years. I look forward to following her adventures—both in Costa Rica as a Fulbright recipient and beyond,” she says.

“I am very glad that Fulbright recognized Jennifer for the special person that she is, and the amazing educator she will be,” says Yasuko Kanno, chair of the Language & Literacy Education Department. “Jennifer Eliezer has so much to offer to this world.”