The SUSI Madeleine K. Albright Young Women Leaders Program (Tunisia)

This intensive exchange opportunity provides undergraduate students with a deeper understanding of the United States, while simultaneously enhancing their leadership skills. The five-week program includes seminar discussions, readings, group presentations, and lectures as well as educational travel, site visits, leadership activities, and volunteering within the local community. Participants will examine topics including active citizenship and responsibilities of citizens in a democracy, civil rights and protections, voting, social justice, gender equity, community-building, grassroots and youth activism, political leadership, media literacy, preventing disinformation, and volunteerism.

The Institute’s five-week academic program and one week study tour will focus on developing participants’ critical thinking, communication, decision-making, and managerial abilities while boosting their knowledge about women in U.S. politics, economics, culture, and society. The program will also examine the current challenges to women in the United States and globally.

Program Dates

• The five-week program will occur sometime between June and July 2024.

Eligibility Criteria

• Eligibility Requirements: Candidates must be 18-25 years old female Tunisians with no previous experience in the United States. Participants must be undergrads who have completed at least one semester of university and have at least one semester remaining in their studies after the end of the SUSI program. Fluency in English is required.

For more information, visit U.S. Embassy in Tunisia.