Citizens in New York State in a grass roots capacity networking with their friends internationally around the globe on a variety of humanitarian efforts to create partnerships and long term friendships around the globeCitizen Diplomacy is the concept that the individual has the right, even the responsibility, to help shape U.S. foreign relations, "one handshake at a time." Citizen diplomats can be students, teachers, athletes, artists, business people, humanitarians, adventurers or tourists. They are motivated by a responsibility to engage with the rest of the world in a meaningful, mutually beneficial dialogue.