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Helping to Educate, Engage, and Empower Youth

Hosted at the University of Connecticut, Grace’s SUSI experience allowed her to examine how business techniques and entrepreneurial skills can be used to address social issues.

Malawi Permaculture

Cornfields hold the promise of continued sustainable development in the Republic of Malawi, Africa.

International Visitor Leadership Program alumna Betty Chinyamuyamu describes a sustainable development project that she worked on in her home county of Malawi.

A Year of Salvation and Professional Development

A Year of Salvation and Professional Development

The Rhythm Road - Vice Verse All Stars

Vice Verse All Star Band

Members of the music group, Vice Verse All Stars, share their thoughts before leaving on a State Department-sponsored trip to West Africa.

Cross-Cultural Exposure: An Interview with Polly McKinney

In Kenya, Maasai women networked with eight American women to nurture entrepreneur spirit.

In September 2008, eight American women traveled to Kenya to develop empowerment networks with Maasai women.

Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation 2010 Awards

Stone sculptures from Lore-Lindu National Park in Central Sulawesi Province, Indonesia

Highlights of the cultural preservation projects around the world that received funding from the U.S. Department of State's U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation in 2010.

Ozomatli and Cultural Visitors Jam Session

Jammin' with the American band, Ozomatli.

In this video, the American band, Ozomatli, meets with 8 musicians from around the world for a jam session.

FORTUNE/State Department Global Women's Mentoring Partnership

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Managing Director, World Bank

The FORTUNE/State Department Global Women's Mentoring Partnership provides mentorship opportunities for emerging women leaders from all over the world.

Kennedy-Lugar YES Program

Kennedy-Lugar program participants express their enthusiasm for their U.S. experience.

The Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) Program provides scholarships to high school students.

Study of the U.S. Institutes Videos

Around the World in an Afternoon is an event--really a festival--that the State Department puts on for SUSI participants each year.

Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Academic Programs Meghann Curtis of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) discusses the Study of the U.S. Institutes' inaugural "Around the World in an Afternoon" event, which took place at the State Department on July 28, 2011.

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