The AFS Hosting Advisory Group (Hosting AG), led by Sara Roberts, West Regional Director, and Heather Stertz, a volunteer from the World Flags Area Team, is a dynamic partnership uniting staff and volunteers across the country.
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Effective immediately, AFS students may travel with their host families to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. These destinations will now be treated as domestic travel under our program guidelines.
Join the AFS-USA winter Share-A-Thon to help identify host families and schools for the remaining SH26 (Jan semester) students.
The AFS-USA Board of Directors is working to identify potential new Directors for 3-year terms, starting in July 2026.
The 2025 AFS-USA Community Summits got off to a strong start on October 11th, with 2 Summits in Carlsbad, California, and Bloomington, Minnesota.
Next week, for the first time in nearly five years, the entire AFS-USA staff will gather together, in person, for several days of collaboration, training, and renewal.
We sit down with Jenny Kissinger Messner, an AFS alumna who believes that our mission is more important now than ever.
Happy International Exchange Day! Today we’re joining the Alliance for International Exchange to celebrate the way intercultural experiences shape lives and communities across the globe. Exchange Day was created in 2014 to raise awareness about exchange programs and to spread the word about the many ways in which people and communities benefit from people-to-people diplomacy. […]
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This yearbook highlights some of the incredible students who spent the 2024–25 academic year living across the country.