When Tlingit Native and former Haines resident Crystalyn Lemieux decided to apply for the Fulbright Scholar program only two weeks before the deadline, her hope for winning was slim.
“I’m not a professor; I don’t have experience applying to those sort of things,” she said.
With a rigorous application process that others spend months preparing, she pushed through with an aspiration to help connect Native people across the world.
After graduating from the University of…