The Diaspora Academy equips embassies, ministries, diaspora affairs offices, and public institutions from every region with diaspora market insights, trained teams, and a year-round engagement strategy, so they understand their diaspora in the United States and partner with them in investment, talent, and culture.
Explore the diaspora leaders elected in the 2026 midterms, from Congress to city councils and school boards, with sourced profiles, filters, and a results dashboard that stays live all year.
Explore the Tracker
This directory and guide gives your team sourced profiles of the diaspora leaders serving in office across America, with the frameworks and tools to engage them with care.
This data-driven guide maps the diaspora communities across the United States, so your institution can see where they live, lead, and build community.
This data-backed guide gives investors, funders, and institutions a full breakdown of diaspora capital and what it takes to partner with the diasporas who hold it.
This guide walks your leadership team through the approach The Diaspora Academy uses with foundations, companies, and public institutions to create diaspora partnerships that last.
This concise guide gives your team a clear, shared definition of diaspora, so you can see who your diaspora partners are and engage them with confidence.
See every guide, tracker, and assessment for institutions and individuals.
Governments in every region now invest in diaspora engagement through diaspora policies, ministries, and dedicated offices. Many meet their diaspora in the United States at an annual conference or road show and want a steady connection between those moments.
We meet that need with diaspora market insights, trainings for your team, and a clear year-round strategy your institution carries forward. TDA has trained diaspora changemakers representing over 80 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Diasporas invest time, talent, and treasure, and every one of those investments deserves a partnership built to match it.
Each service draws on diaspora data and is designed around your institution’s priorities in the United States.
We map your diaspora in the United States by city, sector, generation, and organization, so your team knows where communities live, work, and organize. Our mapping draws on public and aggregate data, and it has verified hundreds of diaspora nonprofits across more than 200 American cities, most of them outside the familiar hub metros.
We design a year-round engagement strategy your team carries out between conferences, with investment, tourism, cultural, and community touchpoints by city and sector. It includes entry points for second and third generations through careers, culture, and service, and follow-up steps so every visit and road show leads to lasting relationships.
We train embassy, consular, policy, and leadership teams to understand diaspora communities and engage them with care. Every session is designed around your mandate and delivered in person or virtually, from a focused leadership briefing to a full-day workshop.
The Diaspora Academy hosts roundtables and learning sessions for teams from embassies, ministries, and public institutions across regions. TDA sets each agenda around current diaspora research and practice, so participants learn from the data, from our facilitators, and from one another.
The Diaspora Academy partners with institutions that treat diaspora engagement as a core strategic priority. Every engagement begins with listening to your mandate, your stakeholders, and the results your leadership expects. From there, we integrate our diaspora engagement frameworks into your existing systems and train your team to lead the work long after our engagement concludes. We serve as your independent training and research partner, and your institution leads its own outreach.
The Diaspora Academy designs every training around your mission, from diaspora affairs offices to consular, policy, and leadership teams. Choose the format that fits your institution, delivered in person or virtually.
We train your staff to understand diaspora communities, engage them with care, and bring diaspora partnership into their daily work.
Your leadership receives a focused briefing on the diaspora communities, data, and trends that matter to the decisions in front of you.
Interactive workshops give your team the frameworks and tools to design diaspora engagement and put it into practice together.
Immersive sessions take your team from a shared understanding of diasporas to a working plan for engaging them.
An informal lunch session opens a conversation across your organization about who your diaspora partners are and why they matter.
A presentation designed for your audience, whether a staff meeting, a board gathering, or a conference, delivered in one focused hour.
It is a year-round relationship between your institution and your diaspora as investors, professionals, and partners. We help your team understand who they are, plan engagement by city and sector, and measure what that engagement delivers.
We work with embassies, ministries, diaspora affairs offices, multilateral missions, and public institutions from every region, and with the foundations and organizations that partner with them. TDA has trained diaspora changemakers representing over 80 countries.
Yes. Many governments already have a diaspora office, program, or conference. We review what exists, identify the U.S. communities your team can reach next, and train your staff to take that next step.
Engagements match your mission, from a single briefing or mapping report to a multi-month strategy with ongoing training support.
Confidentiality is a cornerstone of our practice. Our mapping uses public and aggregate data about communities and organizations. We apply strict data protocols so that institutional insights and strategic roadmaps stay secure and are shared with third parties only with your explicit authorization.
Our partners span multilateral organizations, national and state governments, philanthropic foundations, nonprofits, and private sector firms. Together they represent more than 25 institutional partnerships, more than 15,000 diaspora leaders engaged, and alumni and partners from more than 80 countries.
Diaspora communities are ready partners, and the institutions that engage them with intelligence and care build partnerships that last. Contact The Diaspora Academy to discuss your diaspora engagement goals.
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