Brazilian Portuguese Fulbright Teaching Assistants

“My experience at Pitzer was filled with moments of joy, of learning new things, exploring both as a language teacher and as a person. I will always cherish the time I had here!”

Breno Salluz

Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais

2023-2024

Brazilian Portuguese Fulbright Teaching Assistant

Joana Grande Moreira

Curitiba, Paraná

2022-2023

Brazilian Portuguese Fulbright Teaching Assistant

Danielle Marafigo Arpino

Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul

2020-2022

“My experience as a Fulbright FLTA at Pitzer College was incredibly enriching, both personally and professionally. The vibrant culture exchanges and friendships I built broadened my worldview and transformed me as an educator and individual.”

Isabela Santos

Unaí, Minas Gerais

2018-2019

“The best thing about Pitzer was meeting wonderfully generous people and feeling like part of a community.”

Ana Guimaraes

Recife, Pernambuco

2017-2018

“Living at Pitzer was one of the best experiences of my life! It was much more than teaching Portuguese. I made beautiful friends, I met people I will never forget, I became a better teacher, a better student, a better person! I saw incredible places, I made big dreams come true…I really miss everything I experienced in my “California Dream.””

Dafini Peroba

Aracruz, Espirito Santo

2016-2017

“The coolest things about living and teaching in Pitzer was relearning our language/culture through the eyes of the students and through the contrast with other cultures.”

Thais Guerra

Belo Horizonte, Minas, Gerais

2015-2016

Vitor Lacerda Siqueira is from Minas Gerais in Brazil. As an international student at Pitzer, he majored in linguistics and received a minor in Spanish. In addition to his work as a Portuguese Fletcher Jones Language Fellow, he co-founded and presided over the Brazil Club at the Claremont Colleges. In the fall, he will begin his PhD in Linguistics at NYU, focusing on the phonology of Amazonian languages.

Vitor Lacerda Siqueira

Minas Gerais, Brazil

2014-2015

"As a linguistics major, I loved when students asked me challenging questions about language that I had never considered. It was also wonderful to see how much they progressed in a short period of time."

Vitor Lacerda Siquiera

Brazilian Portuguese Fulbright Teaching Assistant