Amirah Nelson is responsible for outreach and recruitment for the Fulbright Specialist Program, through which approximately 425 U.S. academics and professionals each year are paired with overseas host institutions to share expertise, develop institutional linkages, hone their skills, and gain international experience. She joined World Learning in 2014, working with a portfolio of U.S. Government-funded academic exchange programs that brought over 200 international students to the U.S. from Kosovo, Malawi, and the West Bank and Gaza. Prior to joining World Learning, Nelson worked in Indonesia, where she served as a Fulbright English teaching assistant and assisted the Indonesian Directorate General of Higher Education in its initiatives to address teacher shortages in the country’s remote and disadvantaged regions.