Archives for September 2017

Youth Inspiring Leadership & Civic Participation

This summer, six visitors from Liberia, Nauru, Nepal, Nicaragua, Sierra Leone, and Singapore arrived in Pensacola as participants of Youth Inspiring Leadership and Civic Participation, an U.S. Department of State International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) examining the concepts of democracy, government, and citizenship as well as programs promoting youth leadership. To provide the group with...

Women Leaders: Drivers of Social Change

In May, 11 professionals from Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Venezuela arrived in Pensacola as part of an U.S. State Department International Visitor Leadership Program, Woman Leaders: Drivers of Social Change. The goal of the project was to explore the role women leaders in politics, business, public...

Children in the U.S. Justice System

In spring, a group of eighteen international visitors from Egypt, Ghana, Haiti, India, Kuwait, Latvia, Lithuania, Palau, Panama, Philippines, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, South Sudan, Trinidad and Tobago, Ukraine, Zambia, and Zimbabwe arrived in Pensacola on the last leg of a three week International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) examining “Children in the U.S. Justice System.”...