Karina de Allicon iss a Fulbright alumna (2004-2006) from Montevideo, Uruguay. She is an organizational resilience expert with over a decade of experience helping individuals, teams and leaders in Corporate America.
In 2004, Karina was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to travel to the United States to complete an M.F.A. in Screenwriting at Chapman University, where she learned to craft stories with a global perspective to embrace cultural differences and shared humanity. Since then, Karina has leveraged her Fulbright experience in storytelling to better understand, tell and promote stories of survival (e.g. Hurricane Maria, COVID-19) through her work in Organizational Resilience such as a course designed for the Disaster Recovery Institute and delivered during the Governor’s Annual Emergency & Homeland Security Conference in Wisconsin (2023) on how to prevent employee burnout during incident management
Karina has used her Fulbright journey to better understand the unhealthy stories our minds tell (i.e. cognitive biases) and bring us closer together by reconditioning the mind to promote well-being, mutual understanding and interconnectivity. As an independent behavioral researcher with the University of California, Irvine (UCI), Karina has been able to contribute to a scientific study on the benefits of mindfulness for pregnant women in the Hispanic community.
I look forward to sharing more about mindfulness to strengthen mental health alongside Dr. Laurie Wolfe (Fulbright U.S. Scholar, Uzbekistan 2019) in the upcoming February virtual event of the Community Colleges Chapter (Fulbright Association).
“Fulbright has changed my life, and I’ll always be grateful for the opportunity. Fulbright is an outstanding resource we have to bring the world closer together through international education and global learning.” ~Karina
