![]() ![]() And I was with and part of the president’s team when YALI was created. Like Liz, I was here in 2014 with President Obama, and that’s indelibly imprinted on my own mind. Congratulations on completing this program. It does take a village, and that village includes our university hosts, our partners at IREX, and my own colleagues – Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the Bureau of African Affairs, and in our embassies and consulates around the world.Īnd to you – to our exceptional Fellows – congratulations. Let me just start by saying how grateful I am to everyone who has made this year’s Mandela Washington Fellowship Program possible. Liz, my friend, my colleague, thank you for the wonderful introduction, but also for everything that you do every single day to help build and strengthen ties between our fellow citizens in the United States and people around the world – not the least of which, our Mandela Fellows. SECRETARY BLINKEN: What an incredible pleasure to join you for the first in-person Mandela Washington Fellowship Summit in four years – (applause) – and to see, to feel the incredible energy, the ingenuity, the talent in this room. SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good afternoon, Mandela Fellows.
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