International Visitor Leadership Program

So, I would

like to talk a little bit about what I've been doing recently with IVLP.

In fact, if you look at it this way, there's a lot of reinforcement that needs to be done.

Because in Ethiopia, we don't have a startup.

Yeah.

And for those that don't know the acronym, that's the International Visitor Leadership Program, and I remember, you know, dealing with this when I was at the State Department and meeting some of these folks, um, and just working on the programs that we had with certain countries and everything.

So this is a, a longstanding flagship program that has over f- um, you know, thousands of people that have-

Mm-hmm

... done this before.

So what is this program, and, and why do you find it so important?

So the IVLP program is, as you said, the International Visitor Leadership Program, um, has metrics.

And we-

But there's states, all the states have some kinds of representation and some larger states like Florida and Texas and California have multiple, maybe even five or six Global Ties serving them.

There's also alumni chapters around the world of folks who are participated on the Global Ties programs, particularly the International Visitor Leadership Program, which is the prestigious State Department program that we host.

That's the program where our embassies and consulates around the world are picking emerging leaders.

And so there are several, probably about 20 or 30 International Global Ties alumni networks throughout the world.