For this Small World Café, we were joined by Gulf Coast Diplomacy’s very own Bruno BARROS who was our office’s first intern from the University of West Florida (UWF). BARROS has worked in the international sector since his graduation from UWF and in the summer of 2020 was working for Safmarine in Angola. During the...
For the Small World Café held on September 10, Gulf Coast Diplomacy welcomed two visitors to discuss their work. Dr. Khwaja Mohammed ZIYAUDDIN and Laeeq AHMED KHAN AQIL visited Northwest Florida as participants of an International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) in 2019. Their U.S. Department of State project was coordinated at the national level by...
Our August focus for the café was on the importance of building local identity, and Taras REPYTSKYI shared how he and his team are creating a sense of community in the Sykhivskyi District of Lviv in Ukraine. During the meeting, REPYTSKY shared how his neighborhood has changed in post-communist Ukraine and spoke of the importance...
On January 12th, 2021, Gulf Coast Diplomacy hosted the first Small World Cafe of the new year with guest speakers, Shana Inofuentes and Monica Flores, of The Quechua Project. The two co-founders shared the group’s goal of reinvigorating the endangered Quechua language by expanding its community of speakers to younger generations. As the official language...
In early May 2020, Gulf Coast Diplomacy held its third Small World Café. The speaker for the event was Greece’s own Spyros KOUVELIS who visited Northwest Florida in 2009 on one of our organization’s first projects. KOUVELIS was delighted to “return” to the community and was not shy in pointing out his Certificate of Honorary...
Each year, the U.S. Department of State invites opinion makers from around the world to participate in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP). Gulf Coast Diplomacy is one of the fewer than 90 organizations trusted to craft IVLP experiences at the community level, and we are always pleased to introduce the region to a new...
When I was a graduate student in the International Affairs Program at Florida State University several years ago, I interned at Gulf Coast Diplomacy, then called Gulf Coast Citizen Diplomacy Council. The internship allowed me to meet people from all around the world and to showcase the best parts of Northwest Florida, where I grew...
On Wednesday, November 4th, citizen diplomats and international visitors participating in an Edward R. Murrow International Visitor Leadership Program gathered via Zoom to discuss their thoughts on the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. Their national program was arranged by Mississippi Consortium for International Development and their local program was arranged by Gulf Coast Diplomacy. With coffee...
On 14th of November we had the Youth Diplomat meeting. As a starter, we played a Kahoot on global current events. It was a great ice-breaker and we all gained more knowledge on current global affairs. We had the pleasure of having a guest speaker, Jennifer Strauss, speak to us about her experiences in the...
In December 2019, seven visitors from Kazakhstan came to the region on an International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) project titled Civil Aviation and Safety. The Institute of International Education arranged their national program and Gulf Coast Diplomacy arranged their local program. The situation on the ground was anything but usual, and we thank Pensacola City...
