1. State Department Emphasizes Importance of Keeping Exchange Participants Safe

   On February 26, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Jennifer Zimdahl Galt hosted a dialogue with ECA cooperative partners and sponsors that administer exchange programs to discuss how to continue to strengthen efforts to safeguard the health, safety, and welfare of exchange participants.

2. Health Surveillance in the Arctic: IVLP Participants Convene in Minneapolis and Alaska

   An International Visitor Leadership Program group of nine researchers from member countries of the Arctic Council will meet in the United States over the next 10 days to address public health, medical research and Arctic science issues.

3. The Stevens Initiative brings International Students to Michigan

   On November 14, students from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and the U.S. participated in a global pitch competition at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business in Ann Arbor.

4. Global Media Makers Convene in Cairo

   On November 28th and 29th, the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, in partnership with Film Independent, hosted the Global Media Makers (GMM) Summit in Cairo to celebrate the third year of the distinguished U.S. film mentoring program.

5. Religious and Ethnic Communities Affected by ISIS in Iraq Learn Skills for Heritage Documentation and Preservation

   In April 2019, the Smithsonian Institution (SI) led a three-day workshop at the Iraqi Institute for the Conservation of Antiquities and Heritage (IICAH) in Erbil for Iraqi religious and ethnic groups affected by ISIS whose cultural heritage remains at risk.

6. U.S. Embassy Supports Local Women Entrepreneurs with Academy (WEBC)

   The U.S. Embassy signed a grant with the Women Entrepreneurs Business Council (WEBC) to run the Academy of Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) for 60 to 90 Fijian women business owners.

7. Virtual Workshop Trains U.S. Law Enforcement to Detect Trafficking in Fakes and Forgeries

   Trafficking in stolen, looted, or forged art, antiquities, and other cultural objects benefits criminal organizations and terrorist groups, erodes the legal art market, and harms our relationships with foreign partners and allies.

8. The IVLP and “The Problem We All Live With”

   This summer, the U.S. Department of State’s Office of International Visitors (OIV) initiated a virtual International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) project which explored racial and social disparities, probing America’s complicated history, current social justice movements, and the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on communities of color.

9. ECA Announces Fulbright Program’s 75th Anniversary Celebration at Kennedy Center, Invites Public to View Via Livestream

   The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs is pleased to announce that it will host a celebration of the Fulbright Program’s 75 years of impact at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. on November 30 at 7:00 PM EST.

10. 2022 TIP Report Heroes Connect with U.S. Community Leaders Through the IVLP

    Human trafficking is a pervasive global issue that affects every country in the world, and the Department of State has made combating human trafficking a top priority.

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