Munirat 'Muni' Suleiman CC'24 named Fulbright-John Lewis Civil Rights Fellow

The Fulbright-John Lewis Civil Rights fellowship is a new part of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program that will provide the 29 fellows with access to activities such as a dedicated lecture series, leadership training, and other professional development activities, as well as a capstone seminar after the completion of their Fulbright Program. These activities are in addition to, and complement, the Fellows’ Fulbright projects.

Muni Suleiman CC'24 is currently a Fulbright grantee at the Free University of Berlin where she will conduct research on contemporary transnational Black feminist solidarity efforts between the United States and Germany. Muni shared with URF what being a Fulbright-John Lewis Civil Rights Fellow means to her: As a Metropolitan Atlanta native, I have been a student of John Lewis’ activism for years. His call for youth to “get in good trouble,” or resist social norms to fix social injustices, contoured my coming of age with a drive to create a just world. As social movements evolved after the Civil Rights Movement, Lewis urged us, Georgians and Americans at large, to find unique ways to make good trouble. Good trouble led me to racial justice work and its links to other social issues. By centering the stories of Black women in discourses that attempt to separate race and gender (as I intend to do with my Fulbright research grant), I hope that my work can create good trouble too.