Over the years, International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) and Open World participants in Northwest Florida whose projects have focused on law enforcement have visited a variety of places, with hands-on site visits and engaging conversations along the way. Our dossier of contacts willing to share their knowledge and talk shop with visitors has grown. From...
Northwest Florida is not just known for its hospitality. Did you know the Center for Cybersecurity at the University of West Florida (UWF) is a regional research and education hub? International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) and Open World participants discover this and more while examining ways to increase collaboration with each other and the interlocutors...
Examining the U.S. Judicial System from Northwest Florida is an excellent complement for national itineraries needing a small-to-medium-sized city component as Gulf Coast Diplomacy maintains excellent contacts in both the federal and county courthouses. Past groups spent time at the First Judicial Circuit Court of Florida to examine court administration, case management, and the trial-by-jury...
Gulf Coast Diplomacy reached a milestone in 2024. We officially celebrated five years of our Camp Global program. Camp Global is a local initiative to advance teens in Northwest Florida and beyond in leadership, community engagement, and intercultural competency. Young leaders develop tangible skills for their professional development and explore topics of global importance alongside...
Camp Global 2022 marks Gulf Coast Diplomacy’s third annual virtual summer program, which included 55 young leaders from the United States, Kosovo, Brazil, Pakistan, El Salvador, Palestine, and India. The sessions took place over seven weeks from June through July to promote a greater understanding of global affairs with educational activities for local and international...
What has my Gulf Coast Diplomacy Council internship meant for me this year? Hello everyone! My name is Maggie Brown, and I’ve interned with the Gulf Coast Diplomacy Council since June 2022. I am a third-year student at the University of West Florida, double-majoring in International Studies and Art History. At this internship, I facilitate...
For the last few years, Gulf Coast Diplomacy has been honored to host virtual and in-person projects for the United Kingdom with the International Visitor Leadership Program titled Youth Empowerment and Civic Activism. To introduce a recent in-person group to locals, we first brought them to a community coffee where they could meet with community...
When International Visitor Leadership Program participants come to Northwest Florida, they explore the objectives in their itineraries through a series of meetings and workshops. They also experience our local culture through time with individuals, ticketed events, and unstructured weekend time. For example, when visitors looking at Developing Entrepreneurship, Start-Ups, and the Technology Sector arrived in...
During the fall of 2021, I was a program facilitator for Gulf Coast Diplomacy's Youth Ambassador program. This program included youth leaders from all over the Americas, including El Salvador, Honduras, Belize, Nicaragua, and the United States. In the new normal of virtual programming, these young leaders brought their enthusiasm and young professionalism in tow....
How do you address political policy formation, public-private partnerships, leadership, and advocacy strategies with visitors from the Kyrgyz Republic participating in an International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP)? In the late winter of 2020, our community did just that through a series of hands-on activities and dynamic meetings for professionals from the Ministry of Education and...
