Find out about the students who surround and support you on campus. Their cultures, backgrounds, ambitions. Appreciate the international environment - enhanced by a multitude of regional, professional and social student clubs. Embrace the diversity. Observe the commonality. See how your world is about to expand.

Student Profiles

Pellagia Muliba '09, Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe teenager Pellagia Muliba carried the expectations of her parents when she boarded a plane for the United States in 2000 and became the family’s first college student. She studied hard and graduated five years later, but AIDS took both her parents’ lives before the diploma came. With no money for graduate school, she applied to Thunderbird anyway. “My application was an act of faith,” says Muliba, one of the first recipients of Thunderbird’s Alumni Scholarship Program. “Each time a door opened, I would step through that door not knowing whether the next door would open or remain shut.” A door opened at Thunderbird on July 11, 2008.
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Joon-Mo Park ’09, South Korea

Even when he was only 19, South Korean native Joon-Mo Park ’09 was devising ways to compete professionally. “Most businessmen in Asia love playing golf, and in South Korea, scuba diving is a sport of interest,” says Park, who became a scuba diving master and attended a series of golf-training courses. “Businessmen love to talk about golf, and if I know how to teach people about the sport, it’s a good benefit for future business and negotiation,” he says.
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