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SSU’s first Fulbright Postgraduate Scholar

MaSovaida Morgan was in the second grade when she first developed an itch for journalism and publishing

As one of the students in Parkwood Elementary School’s gifted program, she, along with other students, was assigned a class project.

Morgan decided to create a newspaper, the “Parkwood Elementary Multi-Cultural Gazette,” that would focus on her peers from various cultural backgrounds in her Durham, North Carolina neighborhood.

“I conducted the interviews, typed the articles on an old Mac computer, printed them in columns, photocopied pictures and made it look like a real newspaper from start to finish,” Morgan said.

A big Barbie Doll fan, she entered her newspaper in “Barbie Magazine’s” contest for the 10 Most Outstanding Girls in America.

Morgan won the contest, and with it a trip to New York. The highlight was receiving a personal letter of congratulations from Coretta Scott King, wife of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

The itch to pursue publishing never left Morgan; in fact, it grew stronger.

After living and working in Israel for a few years, Morgan applied for and received a Fulbright Postgraduate Scholar Award in 2012 that enabled her to study at the University of the Arts London on one of the most prestigious and selective scholarships worldwide.