You grew up moving between languages, kitchens, holidays, and expectations, and you carry strengths that deserve a name. The Diaspora Academy helps diaspora professionals and children of immigrants turn that experience into clear direction, confident leadership, and work that reaches the communities and countries they care about.
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 free quiz takes about three minutes and shows where you stand in the diaspora, with a next step made for your result.
Answer the questions online and see your score on screen, with your strengths and gaps across the dimensions of diaspora leadership.
This interactive workbook helps you see your diaspora strengths, your leadership strengths, and your skills clearly, so you can put them to work.
See every guide, tracker, and assessment for institutions and individuals.
How many of you spent Saturdays at language school, long holidays at relatives’ houses, or summers translating for the family? Those years built real skills: reading two cultures at once, earning trust across generations, and moving between worlds with ease.
We help you name those strengths and put them to work in your career, your community, and your connection to your country, region, or ancestral homeland.
One-to-one coaching for diaspora professionals with a specific decision in front of them: investing in their ancestral homeland, entering a business across cultures, or reconciling the hyphenated experience. Sessions meet monthly over three or four months.
A live, online cohort for diaspora members ready to lead. You leave with a Diaspora Vision Statement, a Constituency Power Map, an Audience Engagement Roadmap, an Impact Measurement Framework, and a Multi-Audience Impact Communication Plan.
Start on your own, at your own pace. Self-paced tools, including the free Are You Part of the Diaspora? quiz and the Diaspora Strengths Assessment Workbook, help you name your diaspora strengths and choose your next step.
Diaspora Changemaker Trainings give diaspora leaders the skills to turn care for their communities into lasting change, here and in their countries of origin. The Diaspora Academy delivers these trainings in partnership with community organizations, coalitions, and funders, so each one reaches a group ready to put it to work.
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Learn how policy is made and where diaspora voices fit at the local, state, and federal levels. Participants set an advocacy agenda, identify the decision-makers who can move their issue, build alliances with other organizations, and leave with an advocacy one-pager for their next meeting with an elected official.
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A practical path from your diaspora idea to a business or organization of your own, with the steps to plan it, launch it, and grow it. Details are on the way.
Bringing a training to your organization, coalition, or community? Tell us about your group and we will design it with you.
Clear Answers for Your Next Step
These answers help diaspora members choose the pathway that fits where they are today, from one-to-one coaching to the Diaspora Leadership Program and self-paced tools. Each one points you to a clear next step.
They are for diaspora professionals and children of immigrants, most between 25 and 50, who want their diaspora experience to shape their career, their community work, or their connection to their country, region, or ancestral homeland. Anyone with a diaspora experience is welcome.
The Diaspora Academy uses the International Organization for Migration definition: emigrants and their descendants who live outside their country of birth or origin and keep ties to that country. Two questions decide it. Commitment: do you keep ties through language, culture, family, or work? Consciousness: are you aware of that connection, or actively building it? Both count. Take the free quiz to find out.
Choose coaching when you have a specific decision in front of you and want one-to-one guidance. Choose the Diaspora Leadership Program to build your vision and plan alongside a cohort of diaspora leaders. Choose a product for individuals when you want to begin on your own, at your own pace.
Yes. Coaching sessions and the Diaspora Leadership Program meet online, so you can join from any city or country.
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