Tag Archives: Youth Ambassadors

When History Becomes Personal and Other Inconveniences

Cultural Identity and Unconscious Bias, Individual Responsibility, International ExchangeBy shoss October 5, 2010 Leave a comment

This was supposed to be a cute post about how the Youth Ambassadors from Ecuador (8 high school students and one adult mentor) ended up having to stay two extra days in Chicago because on the day of their departure (9/30) the military closed the airports in Ecuador after a rebellion by the police, in…

First Steps to Cultural Understanding for US Teens

intercultural communications, International Exchange, Things to do with kidsBy shoss June 29, 2009 1 Comment

That’s Grace and Nicole. Two teenagers enjoying an outing together. Except that Grace is from Nicaragua, and Nicole is from Wisconsin. The two met through the Wisconsin/Nicaragua Partners of the Americas Youth Ambassadors Program. “The Youth Ambassadors program, begun in 2002, brings outstanding public high school students from across Latin America to the United States…