Amarilis Lugo de Fabritz

B. Amarilis Lugo de Fabritz, Ph. D., is the Master Instructor for Russian at Howard University’s Department of World Languages and Cultures. Only thing to add: Howard University is the only HBCU with a Russian program – the Russian Language and Literature Minor. Amarilis was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico. She attended high school in Acton, Massachusetts, where she started her studies in Russian language. She received her Bachelor Degree in Russian Language and Literature with Honors from Brown University. She received a Master of Art in International Studies, in Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies from the Jackson School of International Studies at University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. She then completed her doctorate in Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. She has been involved in a number of data science- and cyber security-related undergraduate education and training initiatives, including a recent Howard University – National Security Agency – University of Delaware data science collaboration.