Most Americans don’t know what diplomats or development professionals actually do. That invisibility is dangerous. When diplomacy and development are abstract, they’re easy to underfund, sideline, or destroy. We saw that a year ago when USAID was publicly mocked and dismantled, its life-saving work reduced to a “woodchipper” joke. Millions of lives were affected. Almost no one at home noticed.

In our next Service Disrupted webinar, we examine how invisibility became political vulnerability—and what it will take to make Americans see diplomacy and development as essential to U.S. stability. Click here to register.