Public Diplomacy: Boot Camp and Capstone 2013

First-year Public Diplomacy Program (PD) students spent six weeks in two “boot-camp” classes – Introduction to Public Diplomacy and Visual Communication. Second-year PD students focused on “off-campus” experiences. For example, one student worked on public relations and communications for the San Francisco Film Festival. She even helped select the films to be shown (from the 5000 submissions). Another worked as a communications and development intern for DIAL Africa (Development Initiative Access Link), a non-governmental organization in Somalia. Another PD student worked as an intern at Al Jazeera English in Qatar. Another had a communications internship at the Clinton Foundation in New York City. One student decided to stay in Syracuse and focused on cultural public diplomacy. She helped bring a Haitian artist and the Ambassador from Haiti to the Community Folk Art Center.  Another spent her summer at the State Department’s Office of Foreign Missions in the Houston office serving the foreign consulates and missions in Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Arkansas. Another PD student headed to Washington, DC to join the Digital Outreach Team at the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the State Department.