Academy for Educational Development

Ms. Fulbright is chairman emeritus, International Child Art Foundation in Washington, D.C. She is former executive director of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities and former president of the Center for Arts in the Basic Curriculum, a nonprofit organization concerned with advocacy of educational reform and teacher training.

Her devotion to the arts and education was also demonstrated when she served as executive director of the XXVIth International Congress of the History of Art at the National Gallery of Art from 1983 to 1987. From 1987 to 1992, Ms. Fulbright was involved with the Fulbright scholarship program, first as executive director of the Fulbright Association, an alumni group, then as coordinator, Washington Area Senior Fulbright Program, where she initiated and administered an enrichment program of cultural, historical, and social activities for foreign Fulbright scholars.

Ms. Fulbright has a bachelor’s degree from Radcliffe College and a master’s degree from The George Washington University. She is president of the Fulbright Center and serves as chairman of the International Institute for Leadership and Public Affairs and the Wendy & Emery Reves Center for International Studies. She has received three honorary degrees and was awarded El Orden de Manuel Amador Guerrero, Panama’s highest civilian award in 1997.