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Results are Tagged with "Women and Girls Empowerment"

May 2022 CBYX U.S. Participant of the Month

The German Bundestag and U.S. Department of State are pleased to announce Leah Byrne as the May 2022 Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) U.S. Participant of the Month!

Iraqi Soccer Visitors: Leveling the Playing Field

Sports Diplomacy developed this female-focused sports diplomacy program to continue the State Department’s efforts in empowering and inspiring Iraqi women and girls through sports.

Sports Diplomacy Softball Envoys: A Hit in Nicaragua

As a member of the State Department’s Council to Empower Women and Girls through Sports, Jessica Mendoza truly engaged in “fieldwork” by leading a softball clinic for teenage girls in Nicaragua.

Under the Department’s Empowering Women and Girls through Sports Initiative, Olympians Jessica Mendoza and Ruby Rojas went to Nicaragua as sports envoys in February of 2013.

Empowering Women and Girls: WNBA Basketball Envoys in Ukraine

The girls basketball team works with Tamika Raymond on drills and skills.

The State Department and NBA worked together to send former WNBA players Tamika Raymond and Nykesha Sales to Ukraine as Sports Envoys from January 28 to February 2, 2013.

Envoys Tamika Raymond and Kiesha Brown Travel to China

Kiesha Brown teaches ball handling to the girls from Shenhe Migrant Workers Elementary School in China.

Working with the Women’s National Basketball Association, the U.S. Department of State sent former WNBA stars Tamika Raymond and Kiesha Brown to Shenyang, China.

Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program

The Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program sends approximately 800 American scholars and professionals per year to approximately 130 countries, where they lecture and/or conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields.

Empowering Women and Girls Through Sports in Morocco

Marian Dalmy shares tips on soccer techniques with young players in Morocco.

Working with the U.S. Embassy in Rabat, the U.S. State Department dispatched two former U.S. Women’s National Team players and one former coach to Morocco for a sports envoy program.

The U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team Holds a Special Clinic in Japan

U.S. soccer forward, Abby Wambach, meets some potential future members of Japan's national soccer team.

As part of the “Empowering Women and Girls Through Sports Initiative,” the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team took to the soccer field with Japanese girls in Sendai, Japan on March 27.