Cheney High School alumna Jamie (Billings) Nolting has been selected for the prestigious Fulbright-Hays Group Project Aboard Program, a highly competitive, merit-based grant program founded by U.S. Sen. J. William Fulbright in 1946. The selection makes Nolting eligible to receive scholarships to study, conduct research or exercise her talents abroad.
Nolting’s father, Mike Billings, said the 2005 CHS graduation and class valedictorian plans to spend six weeks in Peru in the heart of Inca country this summer as part of her award. She will live with native families, participate in excursions into the surrounding countryside and be actively engaged in multiple aspects of Peruvian culture and economy.
“Following completion of this program, she will then consolidate her learning, training professional development and intercultural exchange into her teaching curriculum to use in the classroom,” Billings wrote in an email.
After graduation, Jamie Billings received a bachelor of arts degree in Spanish from Eastern Washington University in 2007, and a master of arts degree in Hispanic Studies from Brown University in 2012. After teaching for two years at a New Orleans, La. private school, she and her husband moved to Western Washington where she currently teaches Spanish at Bellarmine Prep High School in Tacoma.
The Fulbright program operates worldwide in over 155 countries, with 53 alumni winning the Nobel Peace Prize and another 78 receiving Pulitzer prizes.
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