Global Leadership Academy
The Global Leadership Academy invites New Orleans students into the wider world through hands-on, community-centered learning. Students step into global conversations and discover how their voices and ideas connect to what’s happening beyond their own neighborhood.
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Lead Together
Students build leadership skills through collaboration, dialogue, and shared problem-solving. They practice working across perspectives while learning how strong communities create space for innovation and change.
Learn by Experience
Through simulations and direct exchange with international fellows, educators, and local professionals, students gain practical skills in communication, critical thinking, and teamwork.
Global Meets Local
The Academy replaces lectures with action. Students explore how global issues take shape in New Orleans. They connect international ideas to local culture, education, ecology, and community life.
Find Your Path
Students discover career pathways in education, research, arts, long-term innovation, and public leadership. Many leave with fresh goals, new mentors, and a clearer sense of where they want to go next.
Build What Lasts
The Academy creates connections that continue through mentorship, collaboration, and future opportunities, long after the program ends.
“Diplomacy is important because even if our worlds can feel separated, we are all still connected, we are all still sharing the planet. I’ve always been interested in politics and this was a major thing that will help me prepare for that.”
-Hannah
“I’m a senior in high school right now, and I am very interested in going into a career in international affairs. Maybe I will go the diplomacy route. I didn’t think I would have this much fun and now I’m thinking I might change my major!”
-Maleah
“I met a bunch of different people from all over the city and the world in just a few hours.”
-Ellis
“It really was an eye-opener to other career options.”
-Cheyenne