Seneca Valley graduate will teach in Middle East
Knowledge is power for one local woman, whose passion for language has landed her the trip of a lifetime.
Tiffani Humble, a 2010 Seneca Valley graduate, was awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program fellowship. As part of the program, she will travel to Amman, Jordan, in September to spend 10 months teaching English to secondary school students.
“I'm not nervous at all. I'm 100 percent excited,” Humble said. “I have a lot of knowledge of the Middle East. I have friends from all over. Knowledge is power. The more you have, the less you have to fear.”
The Fulbright program is the nation's largest international exchange program that sends students abroad to teach English or perform research studies. It is overseen by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State.
She was one of 1,700 students nationwide to be accepted into the program. While in Jordan, Humble will primarily speak Arabic, a language in which she is conversationally fluent.
Humble graduates from the University of Pittsburgh this spring with a degree in sociology and a certificate in global studies.
Her love of language started young. Humble said she first remembers going through books at the Evans City Elementary School library and settling on three foreign language books. While she couldn't understand the writing, she enjoyed pronouncing the words and making connections with the illustrations.
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