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Journalist Lisa Ling named Honorary Chair for the International Women of Courage Celebration 2018
American Women for International Understanding is pleased to announce that our Honorary Chair for the International Women of Courage Celebration 2018 is Lisa Ling, an award-winning journalist, author and advocate...
AWIU Announces List of Grant Recipients for 2017
2017 Grant Program Summary AWIU awards grants focused on training and empowering women and girls throughout the globe. Each year individual grants are given to the U.S. Secretary of State’s...
Delegation Book in honor of our 50th Anniversary
The exciting and courageous stories about AWIU’s twenty-first century delegations to such destinations as China, Russia, Libya, Cuba, Myanmar, Ethiopia, and Saudi Arabia (shortly after 9/11) were compiled by Chicago...
International Women of Courage Celebration 2017: Compassion, Resilience and Bravery
At the 10th Annual International Women of Courage Celebration, Ms. Fadia Najib Thabet of Yemen, an activist working to reintegrate former child soldiers of Al Qaeda and Houthi militias into...
AWIU & U.S. Department of State host the 3rd Annual Career Opportunities In International Relations Symposium
Wednesday, April 19th the AWIU in conjunction with the U.S. Department of State hosted the third annual Career Opportunities for International Relations Symposium. The initial program convened in the Loy...
2017 International Women of Courage Honored in DC, En Route to LA
On March 29th, First Lady Melania Trump and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Thomas A. Shannon presented the 2017 Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage (IWOC) Award...
Introducing 2017 Internationalism Award recipient Anita DeFrantz
The American Women for International Understanding is honored to announce that the 2017 Internationalism Award recipient is Anita DeFrantz, an Olympian and member of the International Olympic Committee who is...
Promoting Careers in International Relations for Women – AWIU’s COIR Symposium on April 19, 2017
Awiu In Collaboration With U.S. Department of State Presents 3rd Annual Symposium on Career Opportunities for International Relations American Women for International Understanding (AWIU) in collaboration with the U.S. Department...
Grant report from AWIU grantee: Women’s Entrepreneur Program (in partnership with The Los Angeles-Lusaka Sister City Committee) in Lusaka, Zambia
The prominent African American Scientist, Inventor, and Botanist George Washington Carver once said, ‘Where there is no vision, there is no hope.” Joyce Nkausu, the Grocer had a vision to...
Mellody Hobson to be Honorary Chair of the International Women of Courage Celebration 2017
Mellody Hobson is president of Ariel Investments. Headquartered in Chicago, the firm offers six no-load mutual funds for individual investors and defined contribution plans as well as separately managed accounts...
