2025-2026 NYC PROJECT BRIDGE YOUTH AMBASSADORS Nadia Allahmorad Junior at Francis Lewis High School. I was born and raised in Queens and am passionate about learning. At school, I serve as the vice president of the Accounting, Commerce, and Economics club, participate in various other clubs, and tutor my peers. Outside of academics, […]
2025-2026 New York City Youth Ambassadors at The Korea Society Posing with the Society’s Exhibition Dyadic | Annette Hur & Hayoon Jay Lee The Project Bridge Youth Ambassador Program is the longest running program offered by The Korea Society’s Education Department. It was started in 1993 as a response to the 1992 Los Angeles uprising […]
2024-2025 NYC PROJECT BRIDGE YOUTH AMBASSADORS Nathaly Collahuazo Senior at MESA Charter High School Born and raised in Brooklyn, I come from an immigrant Ecuadorian household and was taught the values of hard work, dedication, and most of all, grit from a very young age. Growing up as a first generation Latina, I […]
Come join us to celebrate the longest running education Program offered at the Society, the Project Bridge Youth Ambassador Project Program. The Program began in 1993 as a response to Sa-I-Gu—when growing unrest between the African American and Korean American communities triggered widespread destruction in LA’s Koreatown in the wake of the 1992 Rodney King […]
2022-2023 NYC PROJECT BRIDGE YOUTH AMBASSADORS Bianna Chen Millennium High School I grew up in Manhattan and Brooklyn for most of my life and am now a junior at Millennium High School. Also, I have drawn for most of my life which led me to join certain art programs and my school’s AP […]
2021-2022 NYC PROJECT BRIDGE YOUTH AMBASSADORS Nuzhat Anchal Long Island City High School Born in New York, I moved to Bangladesh at the age of 2 and my life became chaotic as I had to move back and forth between my home country and the U.S. It is also not a hidden fact […]
2023-2024 Los Angeles, Montana, and New York Youth Ambassadors at Gyeongbuk Palace in Seoul PROJECT BRIDGE OVERVIEW Project Bridge, whose name captures the goal of reaching across ethnic and cultural divides, aims to help young people develop insights and skills needed to “bridge” the gaps between people of divergent cultural heritages. By fostering greater intercultural […]
2018-2019 NYC PROJECT BRIDGE YOUTH AMBASSADORS COMMUNITY PRESENTATIONS Aidan Lewis High School for Math, Science and Engineering Traditional Korean Music and Dance Frances Ferreira Vanguard High School Premodern Korea: Social Classes Frances Ferreira High School for Environmental Studies Religion and Philosophy in Korea Jaylen Campbell Brooklyn Technical College […]
2019-2021 NYC PROJECT BRIDGE YOUTH AMBASSADORS Britney German Long Island City High School Queens I entered Project Bridge as a senior at Long Island City High School in Queens and in fall 2020 started at Mercy College. I was born in New York and went to Mexico when I was 3, living with […]
DEADLINE: Friday, October 11, 2019 Prospective Youth Ambassadors who are juniors or seniors in a New York City public high school are invited to apply for Project Bridge, an intercultural youth leadership and intercultural awareness program that advances the ability of its participants to understand and respect other cultures. The goal of the Program is […]
