Ioana Tamas, 2015-2016 Hubert H. Humphrey fellow, participated in the Global Leadership Forum held in Washington D.C. this past October. The event, whose main theme was Climate Change, was attended by 166 Humphrey grantees from all across the U.S. Ioana, the only Humphrey grantee in the field of Cultural Policies present at the event, met people from 95 countries from 4 continents and had numerous opportunities to talk to other grantees working on projects with a focus on tangible cultural heritage, urbanism and human rights - fields that frequently intersect the cultural policies area. Ioana attended the reception organized in honor of the participants by the U.S. Department of State and the Institute of International Education, hosted at Benjamin Franklin Hall, the U.S. Department of State.