1. Experiencing Everyday Life in a Host Family

   CLS Participant Learns About Life and Culture From Host Family

2. Hands-on Experience with Good Corporate Governance

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

3. 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.

4. Anita Learns About Another Culture, and Herself

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

5. Unpublished

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

7. Unpublished

   Lessons on Teaching the Hearing Impaired

   Lessons on Culture and Teaching in the International Leadership Educators Program.

8. Rebuilding a Georgian City

   Charlie Bush felt energized when he learned of his acceptance into the ECA Legislative Fellow Program. Charlie, a City Administrator, would be leaving the U.S. and traveling to the Republic of Georgia to exchange ideas on democracy and political participation.

9. Chance Encounters Lead to New Possibilities for Yolanda

   “I need to do something!” Rueda said to the U.S. Ambassador to Spain after meeting him at a volunteer award conference. “ The ambassador, taken by Yolanda’s passion to help others, recommended her for a VolVis International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP). Just a few months later, Yolanda came to the United States on a volunteerism and social innovation-focused IVLP with another Spanish colleague.

10. African Disability Rights Advocates

    From the moment Musa Zulu of South Africa stepped off of the airplane at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C., the level of accessibility impressed him, including the lifts installed on public buses. He also noted how in South Africa, traditionally the government and non-profit actors are the primary advocates for the rights of disabled people. He said it is evident that in the United States, the private sector has embraced disability rights.

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