Name: Henry Moraja

Grad Year: 2025 

Award: Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals (CBYX)

“CBYX is a program funded by the German government where 65 Americans spend 11 months in Germany, first doing two months of intensive language courses, then a semester of university classes in their career field, then five months of an internship. I want to be an academic librarian so I will be taking courses about library science and doing an internship in a library or an archive,” says Moraja. “I am incredibly honored to have the opportunity to spend a year immersed in my passion for German and library science. I look forward to getting to know new regions of Germany, expanding my knowledge of librarianship, and making connections with other participants and students.” 

Moraja would like to thank his advisers in the German Studies department, Christiane Steckenbiller (Associate Professor, Chair) and Chet Lisiecki (Assistant Professor), for supporting him through the application process and inspiring him to continue learning German.