(L-R) Frank Schwartz, Jean Manes, Heather Eaton, Rob Nevitt, Lynn Roche.

(L-R) Larry Schwartz, Jean Manes, Heather Eaton, Rob Nevitt, Lynn Roche. Jean Manes and Heather Eaton are 2012 achievement award winners. Lynne Roche, of State Department's Africa bureau, accepted the award for Sharon Hudson-Dean. Larry Schwartz nominated Jean Manes. Rob Nevitt chairs the PDAA awards committee.

2012 Public Diplomacy Achievement Awards Announced

Public Diplomacy Alumni Association highlights achievements by professionals in Zimbabwe, Okinawa, and Washington, D.C. More ...

New on the Public Diplomacy Alumni Blog

Stephen M. Carney says, "Trying to remember what took place in Nicaragua more than sixty-five years ago I encountered the names of two individuals who were significant in the early annals of public diplomacy and whom I knew personally -- Muna Lee and Jake Canter." More ...

Audio of PDAA Discussion on Syria Now Available

An audio recording of the remarks by Hisham Melhem and Amb. Ted Kattou at the April 10, 2012 PDAA lunch program is now available.   More ...

Video of PDAA Discussion of Pakistan Now Available

The video of the discussion with Stephen Cohen and Walter Douglas at the March 6, 2012 PDAA lunch program is now available.   More ...

New addition to "A Way with Words: Books by USIA Authors"

Added to the large and growing list of books written by USIA and State Department public diplomacy veterans: Pacific Gibraltar: U.S.-Japanese Rivalry over the Annexation of Hawai'i, 1885-1898 by William Michael Morgan. More ...

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Public Diplomacy video

Public Diplomacy Council has re-issued the video Public Diplomacy, first prepared by the USIA Alumni Association in the mid-1990s.

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