PDC President Sherry Mueller poses with Singapore's Ambassador Ashok Kumar Mirpuri and past President Adam Clayton Powell III, at October's First Monday Forum. Amb. Mirpuri outlined factors in Singapore's favorable standing in the world and its upcoming challenges. A key to both: education!

New officers were elected to serve the Public Diplomacy Council on May 6, 2019. From left to right: Anne Barbaro, treasurer; Peter Kovach, secretary; Sherry Lee Mueller, PhD., president; Ambassador Brian Carlson, vice president.

We call on Americans to reject efforts to demean the integrity, lives, and careers of our professionals and join together behind the democratic values that have earned our country admiration around the world. ....

Thirty years ago, a group of retired and active foreign service officers founded the Public Diplomacy Foundation. Their successors held a round-table November 5 at George Washington University (GWU), a close-up assessment of the state of this fine art of people-to- people dialogues today.