North H.S. grad wins Fulbright award

A North High School graduate won a prestigious 2015 Fulbright English Teaching Assistant award that will send him to Taiwan, his college announced on May 6.

Carlsky Belizaire, a senior at CUNY Macaulay Honors College at Queens College, will help English teachers in a Taiwanese classroom teach the language to students there.

This isn’t Belizaire’s first international endeavor; he has studied Japanese culture and business in Japan and business in China. “These two experiences have allowed me to visit world wonders and Fortune 500 companies, learn how to communicate despite a language barrier, and, ultimately, see deeper into my own culture as well as the ones I interacted with,” he said.

Belizaire, who is of Haitian descent and is fluent in Haitian Creole, is majoring in political science at Macaulay Honors College, which “offers exceptional students a uniquely personalized education with access to the vast resources of the nation’s largest urban university” and provides them with a full tuition scholarship, a laptop and technology support, and an “opportunities fund” to pursue “global learning, research and service opportunities,” according to the school.

Belizaire has made the Dean’s List each of his four years in college, is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and is a Hertog Scholar.