Austin native Andrew Lucksinger has been chosen to hitch the 2025–2026 Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) for Young Professionals, a aggressive program supported by the U.S. Department of State and the German Bundestag.
Lucksinger, who graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Reed College in 2025 with a level in historical past and a minor in German, is considered one of simply 65 Americans chosen from a pool of roughly 420 candidates nationwide. Raised in Austin, he has studied in each Portland and Berlin.
At Reed, Lucksinger centered his capstone analysis on West German scholar actions and postwar democratization. He additionally labored with the faculty’s International Programs Office and volunteered with the American Center for Civic Education to advertise world civic engagement amongst highschool college students.
The CBYX program, now in its forty second yr, sends younger professionals to Germany for a yr of language research, college coursework, {and professional} internships. Participants function citizen ambassadors, constructing cross-cultural understanding and long-term U.S.-German connections.
While Lucksinger participates overseas, a reciprocal group of German younger professionals will reside, research, and work in communities throughout the U.S., together with Texas.
