Tiffany Shackelford, Chief Strategic Officer and Director, NGA Global, National Governors Association, spoke about “Governors as Ambassadors: Public Diplomacy at the State Level” at First Monday Forum on June 4, 2018. Photo credit: Bruce Guthrie

Our Lunch and Learn sessions for Department of State public diplomacy staffers featured Department of State bullpen journalists on April 26 at the American Foreign Service Association. Left-right: Felicia Schwartz, Foreign Affairs Reporter (Wall Street Journal); Abigail Williams, State Department Producer (NBC News), Barbara Plett Usher, State Department Correspondent (BBC) and Matt Lee, Diplomatic Writer (Associated Press). Photo Credit: BBC

PDC President Adam Clayton Powell III attended the first ever Africa-US Public Diplomacy Conference at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg on March 10th. The conference was co-sponsored by The Public Diplomacy Council, aims to commence the first Public Diplomacy Project in Africa. Pictured L-R: Adam Clayton Powell III, President of the PDC; Prof. Gilbert Khadiagala, Director, African Center for the Study of the USA; Prof. Tawana Kupe, Acting Vice Chancellor of the university; Jay Wang, Director, USC Center on Public Diplomacy; and Dr. Bob Wakesa, Director of the university's new Public Diplomacy initiative. (Photo credit: Koko)

Our collaboration with the American Council of Ambassadors for the Kathryn W. Davis Fellows. Council members meet with each Fellow for several mentoring meetings where they share their experience in public diplomacy and career management. Pictured are the 2017 Fellows, Maren Payne-Holmes (far left) and Julius Tsai (right), with the Honorable Bruce Gelb. Photo Credit: Brian Carlson