1. Cultural Heritage Coordination Committee Meeting

   The Interagency Cultural Heritage Coordinating Committee conducted its third quarterly meeting. The meeting was chaired by Scott Weinhold, Senior Bureau Official of the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, which chairs the committee and serves as its secretariate.   

2. From Vision to Impact: Women Entrepreneurs Flourish in Embassy Mexico’s National Pitch Competition

   In 2023 and 2024, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and U.S. Embassy Mexico City collaborated with AT&T Mexico on ECA’s Academy for Women Entrepreneurs’ (AWE) local and national pitch competitions.

3. VPDO Review for U.S. Scholars to India

   

   This recording provides a review of information that was covered during the Virtual Pre-Departure Orientation (VPDO) for U.S. Scholars to India that took place on Wednesday, June 15.

4. U.S. Returns Lost Treasures of Korea

   Priceless treasures from Korea’s Joseon Dynasty are on a journey home, after the U.S. government returned two royal seals to dignitaries from the Republic of Korea during a June 30 ceremony in Washington.

5. U.S. returns 523 artifacts to Mexico

   The U.S. government has returned to the Mexican government 523 pre-Hispanic era archaeological pieces a Texas man smuggled into the U.S. and tried to sell.

6. Cultural Heritage Game Jam Inspires Global Creativity and Innovation

   847 People from 72 Countries Develop 115 Videogames

7. Bringing the Taste of Tobago to the Big Apple and Beyond

   [Tobago, September 2022] Shanice Prince, a 2022 alumna of Trinidad and Tobago’s first cohort of Academy of Women Entrepreneurs (AWE), founded Tom Tom’s Local Confectioner in 2016 with a recipe for chocolate fudge, shared with her by a family friend.

8. AWE Alumna’s Beekeeping Business Creates a Buzz in Tanzania

   For more than 10 years, Lightness Salema has been turning her passion for beekeeping into a way to alleviate poverty in Tanzania.

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