The San Diego Diplomacy Council is searching for suitable professional hosts for an incoming cohort of mid-level international emerging leaders, who are participating in the Professional Fellows Program (PFP). Fellows will be placed in the U.S. for a four-week fellowship, any time between April 1 to June 30, 2021. While their incoming visit will be virtual, we… Read More
Global Leadership Youth Summer Program is BACK!
Student programming is back! This Summer we are slated to run what is quickly becoming one of our flagship offerings, the Global Leadership Youth Summer Program (GLYP). Open to students entering grades 8 -12, this program gives students valuable skills including negotiation, global awareness, and an understanding of diplomatic processes. This program has been made possible… Read More
SDDC AAPI Anti-Hate Statement
We at the San Diego Diplomacy Council are deeply saddened by the shooting incident in Atlanta yesterday in which 8 people, 6 of whom were Asian women, lost their lives. This incident is just one of many in the rise of hate crimes and xenophobia, marking yet another tragic loss for those in the Asian-American… Read More
Celebrating Black History Month
We kicked off our E-Cultural Diplomacy Series by celebrating Black History Month and hosted a powerful discussion on Isabel Wilkerson’s book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. The book addresses the roles of race and caste in American society, making comparisons with the Nazi system in Germany and the caste system in India. Paula Herring,… Read More
2021 International Woman of Courage Award
To celebrate International Women’s Day, the San Diego Diplomacy Council has had the honor of hosting a recipient of the U.S Secretary of State’s International Woman of Courage Award for the last 6 consecutive years. We are delighted to announce that we will be hosting one of the 2021 International Woman of Courage awardees Judge Erika Lorena Aifan, who hails from Guatemala…. Read More
Negotiation Skills and Exchange Workshop for High School Students
We are constantly on the lookout for exceptional partners the San Diego Diplomacy Council can work with to share our love of learning, diplomacy, negotiation, and teamwork with others. Few organizations have a vision for a program so closely aligned with ours, and few programs are as successful, as our recent partnership with PATHWAYS Institute… Read More
Message from Brooke Scott, our 2021 Emerging Leader
“As a San Diego native who returned home after 9 years, I felt like a tourist in my own city. The streets and locales – once a friendly reminder of what I had called home, suddenly felt so foreign. I came to realize how little I knew of my own hometown. But what I have… Read More
We’re Hiring!
The San Diego Diplomacy Council is pleased to announce we are growing our team! We’re looking to hire a new Program Associate. Under the Program Director’s supervision POSITION DESCRIPTION – PROGRAM ASSOCIATE Non-exempt Part-time Position The San Diego Diplomacy Council (SDDC) is a non-profit 501(c)3, a membership organization that provides programming services to visiting international leaders… Read More
SDDC is committed to promote dialogue and democracy
Like many in the world, the San Diego Diplomacy Council watched the assault against the U.S Capitol building, the temple of our democracy and a model for many societies around the world, with horror and sadness. The San Diego Diplomacy Council is a non-partisan organization, but what happened on January 6th, 2021 is an attack against… Read More
Stephanie’s story: “I want to promote change”
Stephanie Ramirez is a former student of our Global Leadership Youth Program. She writes with gratitude as she explains her experiences taking the program as well as the many impacts it has had on her life moving forward. Here is her testimony: ” My name is Stephanie Rios Ramirez. I attend the Preuss School UCSD… Read More
