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  1. Sports Diplomacy Softball Envoys: A Hit in Nicaragua

    As a member of the State Department’s Council to Empower Women and Girls through Sports, Jessica Mendoza truly engaged in “fieldwork” by leading a softball clinic for teenage girls in Nicaragua.

    Under the Department’s Empowering Women and Girls through Sports Initiative, Olympians Jessica Mendoza and Ruby Rojas went to Nicaragua as sports envoys in February of 2013.

  2. What is Culture?

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    Celebrate #CulturalDiplomacy with us by sharing a part of culture, whether it be an art exhibit, concert, or food that moved you.

  3. What is the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA)?

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    This video describes the Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

  4. Sports Diplomacy: Kazakhstan Boxing

    Sports United: Boxing Diplomacy

    A delegation of 12 Kazakhstani boxers and trainers traveled to the United States to visit community boxing programs and the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky.

  5. Sports Diplomacy and Senegal: Empowering Women and Girls through Basketball

    The Senegalese girls take part in a friendly basketball scrimmage at a D.C.-area gym.

    The Empowering Women and Girls through Sports Initiative’s 2013 calendar tipped off with the Senegal Sports Visitor basketball program.

  6. Global Sports Mentoring Program Exchange Alumna Becomes first Macedonian Woman to Climb Mount Everest

    Ilina Arsova, Global Sports Mentoring Program Alumna, becomes the first Macedonian woman to climb to the summit of Mount Everest.

    Ilina Arsova, a mountain climber from Macedonia and alumnae of the State Department and espnW Global Sports Mentoring Program, is reaching new heights to engage women and girls in sports.

  7. One-on-one with Sports Envoy Sam Perkins and Sports Visitor Joseline Kenyi from South Sudan

    South Sudan Sports Visitors.

    In November 2012, Sports Diplomacy brought five South Sudanese coaches to the U.S. for a 10-day dynamic people-to-people exchange focused on developing youth basketball programs in the country.

  8. Paralympic Sport Club Director Had an Exchange of a Lifetime

    Cindy Housner

    Cindy Housner, a Sports Diplomacy grantee participant to Brazil and Director of a Paralymic Sport Club, tells us what living without limits means to her.

  9. Empowering Women and Girls Through Sport

    SportsUnited: Empowering Women Through Sports

    Empowering Women and Girls Through Sport

  10. Sports Visitors from the Dominican Republic and Venezuela

    During a time-out, the young coaches receive a history lesson about the World Baseball Classic.

    Organized to coincide with the World Baseball Classics, ECA had a Sports Visitor program for baseball and softball youth coaches from March 1 to 11, 2013.

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