This June, six visitors from Russia traveled to Pensacola for eight days as part of the Open World Program. Their focus was on women in entrepreneurship. While in Pensacola, they stayed with host families Leigh and Kent DeSantis, Larisa Reyes and Tim Chandler, Wendy and Chris McCullar, JoAnn and Ken Roberts, Faye and Robert Robinson,...
This spring, we received a small group of visitors from Libya who traveled to Pensacola on a U.S. Department of State International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) titled Women in Leadership: Drivers of Political and Social Change. While they were in town, they met with several locals who described the opportunity to interact with them as...
Advancing Gender, Ethnic, and Cultural Minority Rights was the project title for a recent group from France who came to the United States as International Visitor Leadership Program participants. They were in the country on this professional exchange for three weeks, attending meetings and site visits in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Reno, Phoenix, Pensacola, and New...
