Remarks as prepared Ambassador Sarah Ann Lynch Services Showcase Breakfast to Celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week November 20, 2019, 9:00 AM Herdmanston Lodge Esteemed Guests All, Hello! It’s so great to be here! I have had a wonderful time meeting some of you already, and hope I can talk to some more of you, so I ...
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By U.S. Embassy Georgetown | 20 November, 2019 | Topics: Ambassador, Speeches | Tags: Entrepreneurship, YLAI
Remarks as prepared Ambassador Sarah Ann Lynch WeLead Conference September 18, 2019, 9:00 AM Arthur Chung Conference Centre, Turkeyen It’s so great to be here! I don’t want to take too much time since there are many amazing speakers here today and of course, the main purpose of the conference is for you to network ...
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By U.S. Embassy Georgetown | 18 September, 2019 | Topics: Ambassador, Speeches | Tags: Entrepreneurship, Women's Empowerment, YLAI
The U.S. Embassy is proud to announce the 2018 cohort from Guyana for the Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) Professional Fellows Program. The program takes place in September and October and will bring 250 young leaders from 36 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to the United States. This year we are ...
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By U.S. Embassy Georgetown | 10 August, 2018 | Topics: Education, Press Releases, Scholarships and Exchanges | Tags: Entrepreneurship, Exchanges, YLAI, Youth
The U.S. Embassy is pleased to announce the opening of the application period for the Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) Professional Fellows Program. YLAI applications are now being accepted at
https://ylai.state.gov . Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, YLAI will this year bring 250 young entrepreneurs from the Caribbean and Latin America to ...
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By U.S. Embassy Georgetown | 14 February, 2018 | Topics: Press Releases, Public Affairs, Scholarships and Exchanges, U.S. & Guyana | Tags: Entrepreneurship, Exchanges, YLAI, Youth
The U.S. Embassy is proud to announce the Guyana cohort of the 2017
Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) Professional Fellows Program . The five-week program, sponsored by the
U.S. Department of State , will bring 250 young leaders from 36 countries in the Caribbean and Latin America to the United States to augment their business or social venture plans, learn from U.S. counterparts, and share best practices. ...
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By U.S. Embassy Georgetown | 24 August, 2017 | Topics: Press Releases, Scholarships and Exchanges | Tags: Entrepreneurship, Exchanges, YLAI
As this is a conference about Empowered Leadership and Unleashing Promise and Potential, particularly among women, I am reminded of a quote from one of America’s great female authors, Ayn Rand, who wrote in Atlas Shrugged, “The question is not who is going to let me; (pause) it is who is going to stop me?”
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By U.S. Embassy Georgetown | 26 April, 2017 | Topics: Ambassador, Speeches | Tags: Entrepreneurship, Exchanges, Women's Empowerment, YLAI
GEORGETOWN – President Obama’s 2016
Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) Fellows Program will bring together 250 young leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean, including four from Guyana, to the United States for an exchange program that will involve internships and skills-building workshops. President Obama launched YLAI to build linkages between young leaders across the hemisphere and to expand opportunities ...
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By U.S. Embassy Georgetown | 31 August, 2016 | Topics: Business, Education, Former U.S. Government Leaders, Press Releases, Public Affairs, Scholarships and Exchanges, U.S. & Guyana, Western Hemisphere | Tags: Barack Obama, Education, Entrepreneurship, Exchanges, YLAI, Youth
The Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) Professional Fellows Program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, is looking for 250 young entrepreneurs from Latin America and the Caribbean to bring to the United States for business and social entrepreneurship training in October and November 2016. The YLAI Professional Fellows will become part of ...
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By U.S. Embassy Georgetown | 4 May, 2016 | Topics: Press Releases | Tags: Entrepreneurship, YLAI, Youth
