MACAULAY SEA CLIFF STUDENT WINS FULBRIGHT AWARD
May 13, 2016 New York, NY – Macaulay Honors College at The City University of New York is pleased to announce that alumna Leanne Tory-Murphy ’15 (Hunter College), whose family resides in Sea Cliff, has received a Fulbright award. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program offers research, study and teaching opportunities in over 140 countries to recent graduates and graduate students. Applicants for study/research awards design their own projects and will typically work with advisers at foreign universities or other institutes of higher education.
Tory-Murphy’s major was in Interdisciplinary Studies in the Thomas Hunter Honors Program. She received a grant from Fulbright to complete an oral history project exploring migration in the Mediterranean, where she will be studying in Palermo, Sicily.
“I feel humbled to have the opportunity to work alongside migrant and refugee communities in the region and to connect with the place that my own family migrated from,” said Tory-Murphy.
She currently works at the Worker Justice Center of NY, a human rights organization that advocates for the rights of low-wage immigrant workers throughout upstate NY, with a focus on agricultural workers. She was a William R. Kenan Scholar while attending Macaulay.
Tory-Murphy’s major was in Interdisciplinary Studies in the Thomas Hunter Honors Program. She received a grant from Fulbright to complete an oral history project exploring migration in the Mediterranean, where she will be studying in Palermo, Sicily.
“I feel humbled to have the opportunity to work alongside migrant and refugee communities in the region and to connect with the place that my own family migrated from,” said Tory-Murphy.
She currently works at the Worker Justice Center of NY, a human rights organization that advocates for the rights of low-wage immigrant workers throughout upstate NY, with a focus on agricultural workers. She was a William R. Kenan Scholar while attending Macaulay.