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Dr. Jen Welter demonstrates ladder drills during a Facebook Live event hosted by the Sports Diplomacy Division, May 6.

Sports Diplomacy hosts virtual fitness sessions

From right: CEO of the Boston Marathon organizing body Tom Grilk joined Boston Marathon winners Lisa Rainsberger (1985) and Greg Meyer (1983) as the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs’ sports envoys to Egypt, Oct. 23–28, 2018. The three runners mentored Egyptian race organizers from Alex Runners and Cairo Runners and held clinics for local runners, women and youth, including a 5K run past the Giza Pyramids.

Sports envoys stride into Pharaoh Fun Run

World Cup champion and Olympic gold medalist Alex Morgan joined the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), the Bureau of International Information Programs and Mission Tanzania for a Facebook Live event, March 21, to celebrate Women’s History Month. The event kicked off ECA’s “Step In, Dream Big” initiative ahead of the 2019 Women’s World Cup to tap into the power of role models, encouraging girls to step into their potential and realize their dreams. Youth athletes, coaches and advocates from Tanzania (where Morgan served as a Department of State sports envoy in 2017) and 20 U.S. embassies, consulates and American centers in Africa, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, and South and Central Asia interacted live with Morgan for a 45-minute question and answer session.

Olympian Alex Morgan participates in ECA social media event

Ambassador Wanda Nesbitt of the Foreign Service Institute, Laura Gentile of espnW and Director of the Office of Civil Rights Gregory Smith at closing remarks on Women’s Equality Day. Photo by James Pan

Executive Women @ State celebrates Women’s Equality Day

U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic Robin Bernstein is shown after she threw out the first pitch at a Gigantes’ (Giants) game in San Francisco de Macorís, Nov. 5. Photo by Chase Beamer

Sports diplomacy thrives in the Dominican Republic