Citizen Diplomacy Alliance for International Visitors

What We Do

The Citizen Diplomacy Alliance is a nonprofit group that designs and implements professional programs and provides cultural activities and home hospitality opportunities for foreign leaders, specialists, and international scholars. Citizen Diplomacy is the idea that the individual citizen has the right – even the responsibility – to help shape U.S. foreign relations “one handshake at a time.” By opening our homes, offices, and schools to foreign leaders participating in the U.S. Department of State’s International Visitor Program and other exchanges, Citizen Diplomacy Alliance members foster international understanding and cooperation, constructive economic connections, and peaceful interaction.

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Who We Are

The Citizen Diplomacy Alliance for International Visitors serves participants in the U.S. Department of State's International Visitor Leadership Program and other exchanges, building person-to-person relationships "one handshake at a time."

The International Visitor Leadership Program

administered by the U.S. Department of State annually brings to the United States approximately 5,000 foreign nationals from all over the world to meet and confer with their professional counterparts and to experience America firsthand. The visitors, who are selected by United States Foreign Service Officers overseas, are current or potential leaders in government, politics, the media, education, the arts, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), business and other fields.