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AWIU Announces Diplomatic Courier’s Ana Rold as 2018 Internationalism Award Honoree
The American Women for International Understanding is honored to announce that the 2018 Internationalism Award recipient is Ana C. Rold, the founder and publisher of Diplomatic Courier, a global affairs...

Bernice Behrens Founder’s Award to AWIU Grant Program Chair
AWIU is pleased to announce that the Bernice Behrens Founder’s Award will be presented to Marsha Niazmand at the 2018 International Women in Courage Celebration in Los Angeles. Created in...

International Career Opportunities
Join us for a time of Conversation, Networking, Q&A and Youth international experiences stories by Ariel Sweet, Co-Founder of Aliah Sweet Fragile Hearts Foundation and Kris Grimes, Systems Specialists, Orbasis Solutions, Inc. This is a special event...

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...