In mid-February, the Gulf Coast Citizen Diplomacy Council hosted five visitors from Colombia as part of an International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) project titled “The Road to Markets and its Role in Rural Development.” These visitors were in the country to look at the themes of agricultural and rural development. The group arrived on a...
In early February, the Gulf Coast Citizen Diplomacy Council hosted seven international visitors from Australia, Cyprus, Israel, Kenya, Morocco, Nepal, and Nigeria as part of an International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) exchange titled “Education and Activism for Young Women.” These visitors came to Pensacola to meet with women leaders in the community and representatives of...
The 2017 Youth Ambassadors Brazil exchange brought a group of 10 teens and one adult mentor from all across Brazil to Pensacola for 12 days in January. Their time here illustrates how ours is a generous, passionate community which continually steps up to support the concept of citizen diplomacy and the power it has to...
I was pleasantly surprised to be chosen to attend the Global Ties U.S. National Meeting. As a first-time attendee, I wasn’t sure what to expect, but with my involvement with the young professional’s committee of the Gulf Coast Citizen Diplomacy Council, I was excited to learn more about international exchange and foreign relations. I arrived...
