This spring, 16 visitors from Mexico came to Pensacola on a Police Professionalization Exchange Program for Mexico, a program of the U.S. Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs which aims to provide professional development and training to 4,000 law enforcement professionals, police officials, and other professionals from Mexico over a...
What does a group looking at volunteerism and civic action explore while in northwest Florida? The answer is A LOT! In the spring, a group of international visitors from Chile, Egypt, Nepal, Palestinian Territories, Sri Lanka, Turkey, and South Africa who were here as participants of the International Visitor Leadership Program, a professional exchange of...
The Gulf Coast Citizen Diplomacy Council selected three charter members of its Youth Diplomats Program to go on a June 2018 trip to Washington, D.C. where they spent two days exploring international exchange, diplomacy, and the U.S. government through a series of meetings and site visits with the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Diplomacy...
In the spring, the Gulf Coast Citizen Diplomacy Council received ten International Visitor Leadership Program participants from Bolivia who traveled to the United States to explore best practices in eco-tourism. The goals behind their project focused on how the eco-tourism business model can help benefit local economies while contributing to the protection of natural habitats...
Five visitors from Azerbaijan traveled to northwest Florida on the International Visitor Leadership Program to participate in a project titled Vocational Education: Workforce Development and Public-Private Partnerships. The purpose of their time in the country included exploring how to promote workforce development and examining how public-private partnerships and collaboration works among the business community, vocational...
Who do visitors examining Child Protection and Parental Rights in the United States through the International Visitor Leadership Program meet when they come to northwest Florida? For a recent group from Indonesia, the options focused on U.S. child custody laws and the family court system. To welcome the visitors to the region, Council Member Sherri...
This spring, four visitors from Japan visited Pensacola as a part of the U.S. Department of State International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) under a project titled Parental Abduction Cases: Children, Families, and Courts. The purpose of this project was “to introduce subject matter experts who handle visitation for parents in difficult divorce or custody cases...
Improving the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem was the title of a recent International Visitor Leadership Program for a group from Colombia. City Council Executive Don Kraher welcomed the group to the region at an orientation at Pensacola City Hall, and Gulf Coast Citizen Diplomacy Council Board Member John Adams invited locals to an informal coffee session in...
In late winter, five visitors from Colombia visited Pensacola as a part of the U.S. Department of State International Visitor Leadership Program on a project titled Accessing Foreign Markets: Export Logistics from Rural Roads to Ports. On their first day in town, they attended a community coffee with Edward Posey, Julie Connerley, and Leigh and...
Each year, the U.S. Department of State holds a ceremony in Washington, D.C., to present the International Woman of Courage award to women from around the world who are doing phenomenal work. One such woman, Dr. Feride Rushiti of Kosovo, was selected as an honoree due to her work in Kosovo as the founder and...
