1. Hands-on Experience with Good Corporate Governance

   Bringing Hands-on Experience with Good Corporate Governance Back to Ukraine

2. NBA Legend Tracy Murray Goes Beyond the Game as Sports Envoy

   During Tracy Murray's most recent trip to Greece as a Sports Envoy, he conducted basketball clinics and engaged in dialogue with young people on “fair play” and social justice.

3. Home Host Exceeds Expectations as a Citizen Diplomat

   Over the past 11 years, International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) participants from all around the world have walked through Anita Bevan’s front doors. Anita lives by a quote displayed in her Reno, Nevada home, “May all who enter as guests leave as friends.”

4. Anita Learns About Another Culture, and Herself

   My experience helped me to approach difficult situations with perspective and objectivity.

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   Joannie of Benin Becomes a Leader

   When the U.S. Embassy in Cotonou nominated Joannie Bewa to attend the International Visitor Leadership Program’s (IVLP) “Young African Leaders” with 19 of her colleagues from across Africa, she jumped at the chance to gain a better perspective of U.S. culture and policy.

6. Unpublished

   Turkmenistan Participant Connects with Disabilities Organizations

   In his home country of Turkmenistan, Ibragim Nurjanov has been a tireless advocate for the well-being of people with disabilities, both as a sports trainer and as a participant in the Democracy Commission. As such, he was a natural candidate for an International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) on the topic of “Promoting Disability Rights.”

7. Learning about Southern Culture in New Orleans

   Global UGRAD Learns about Southern Culture in New Orleans

8. My Extended Minnesota Family

   Fahmida Zaman sometimes missed her family in Bangladesh during her Global Undergraduate Exchange Program experience. She spent the better part of 2012 at St. Catherine University in Minnesota, well removed from her home. But, she is thankful for the connections she made with professors, her “friendship family,” American and international students, and one very memorable meeting with another Bangladeshi.

9. Exchange Generates Ideas for Preserving Mali’s Rich Cultural Heritage

10. Meeting with International Visitors Is Just the Beginning for New York Couple

    Exchanges cultural and professional ideas through the International Visitor Leadership Program

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