Watson recipient Aisha Fukushima ’09 featured in international media

Wednesday, Aug 4, 2010

As her Watson Fellowship-sponsored year of world travel to explore raptivism comes to an end, a story in the Bangalore Mirror, one of India’s largest news outlets, features Aisha Fukushima ’09. In the story she shares highlights from her research on the hip-hop culture around the world and how it relates to activism.

She also shares a little about how she herself may be perceived around the world: “In Senegal, I was too white. In Morocco I was too black. In UK, I was Asian and in Denmark, nothing matters…”

Read the full story by Jayanthi Madhukar, posted online Aug. 4, 2010, here. Read more about Aisha and her Watson Fellowship research here. Follow Aisha's travels in her blog.