Thanks to 600 KOGO News Radio for their interview this morning about the 32 women leaders in peace and security visiting San Diego! The group is having a very successful visit. Stay tuned for more updates! Interview is available below:
$5,000 match for our 40th Anniversary!
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, the San Diego Diplomacy Council just received a challenge gift from a generous donor. The anonymous donor made this donation because of the great work we have done over the last 40 years in building bridges between people and countries to promote peace and stability in our world. The donor has vowed to match… Read More
Our lasting Impact: Promoting LGBTQ rights in Malaysia
The visits of global LGBTQ community leaders and activists to San Diego are not just a matter of cultural and professional exchange. Already ambassadors of change in their own country, these individuals travel to the U.S. as citizen diplomats on a mission. The reverberating impact of such visitors is epitomized in Nisha Ayub, as her… Read More
A Look Back: Diplomacy Begins Here Regional Summit and 40th Anniversary
Thank you to the 300 civic leaders, international affairs experts, community members, international alumni, and students from across the region and around the world who helped us mark our 40th-anniversary last month and engaged in important and enlightening conversations about grassroots diplomacy, exchanges and innovative solutions impacting our border region. Organized in partnership with Global… Read More
Meet Our IVLP Gold Star Alumnus: Ivan Tagle
We invite you to register to the summit on September 20th to hear Ivan Tagle talk about how he defends and expands the rights of Mexico’s LGBTQ+ community and laid the groundwork for a draft law that would ban sexual conversion therapies in Mexico. Ivan Tagle is an International Visitor Leadership Program Gold Star… Read More
Listen to Our Fellows Radio Interview
Check out fellowship host Alan Kennedy and Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative fellows Cesar Trinito Freitas Gaio talking with Specialty Produce Network about how they combat food waste. Thank you both for your leadership! American Councils for International Education The Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative augments leadership development and networking in the 10 ASEAN countries… Read More
Farewell
Natalie’s Message It has been said that all of the cells in our body regenerate every 7 years, connoting that every 7 years we are new beings replete with a fresh perspective. Now – 7 years after I began – I’m struck by this fun bit of medical lore as I announce my departure from… Read More
Interview with KSON Radio
We would like to give a special thanks to Jonathan Schulman, Matthew Wirtz, and the Center for Excellence in Citizenship at La Jolla Country Day School for joining us on the air and for championing citizen diplomacy among our local San Diego youth.” If you didn’t catch our radio interview on 103.7 KSON, Sunny 98.1,… Read More
ALUMNI VOICES
Only a few weeks before the synagogue shooting in Poway, Thomas of Düsseldorf, Germany came to San Diego with colleagues to better understand how our region is addressing the threat of hate crimes and violent extremism. His words are cathartic and catalytic as our region mourns the loss and deepens our resolve to redirect extremism… Read More
Women of Courage Global Social Hour – Check the Video and Photos!
On March 14th, we were honored to co-host with La Jolla Country Day School and the Preuss School UC San Diego a Global Social Hour dedicated to one of the 2019 US Secretary of State International Women of Courage (IWOC) Awardees. Naw K’nyaw Paw, the awardee, is a human rights activist from Burma who has… Read More
