Thirty exceptional U.S. graduates each year will receive fully funded master’s study at France’s leading universities, alongside an immersive leadership and cultural program designed to cultivate the next generation of French-American leaders
AC Manning ’25, a recent graduate of Smith College, will be part of the first cohort of the Lafayette Fellowship, a new scholarship created by the French Embassy in the United States to deepen the academic and cultural exchange between France and the U.S. and to support young leaders interested in this transatlantic relationship.