Deputy Assistant Secretary Alina Romanowski traveled to Indiana from December 6th to 8th to lead ECA’s second series of meetings geared to increasing family and school hosting capacity for high school exchange students. During a day in Fort Wayne, Romanowski visited two high schools, spoke at a roundtable meeting with school administrators, and attended a host family dialogue. In Indianapolis, she visited three high schools, met with the superintendent of the Indiana School for the Deaf, attended a luncheon in her honor at the Indiana Department of Education, and spoke at a second host family dialogue. On her last day in Indianapolis, she led a panel focusing on the benefits of international exchanges at the Symposium for Tomorrow’s Leaders sponsored by Indiana Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN). Two Youth Exchanges Program (YES) and twoFuture Leaders Exchanges Program (FLEX) students joined her on the panel.