Dear Gulf Coast Citizen Diplomacy Council: Thank you for the opportunity to be a part of the 2018 Emerging Leaders Program at the 2018 Global Ties U.S. National Meeting in Washington, D.C. To be amongst 20 other Emerging Leaders, over 70 ambassadors, and more than 1,000 exchange makers was truly an extraordinary experience. When I...
This autumn, six Nicaraguan visitors spent time in Pensacola as part of a U.S. State Department International Visitor Leadership Program titled Building Small Business Development Centers. The goals of the project included “to introduce participants to the U.S. Small Business Development Center model…to examine the economic, political and social factors that influence and encourage the...
Last September, four visitors from Indonesia arrived in Pensacola as part of a U.S. Department of State International Visitor Leadership Program titled NGOs and Social Services. The purpose of this project was “to learn about the role of NGOs in providing educational services for children with disabilities, to explore how NGOs provide programming and opportunities...
