As Chairman, Co-Founder and Board Member of the Humpty Dumpty Institute, Connie Milstein promotes improved dialogue between the U.S. government, the U.S. Congress and the United Nations. This improved relationship is accomplished through several means and on a variety of levels.
At the moment HDI is the only U.S. organization that brings congressmen and women and other senior government staff to United Nations Headquarters for private and off-the-record talks on issues of critical importance to the U.S. and U.N.
Based on the belief that sharing information improves policy decisions, the Humpty Dumpty Institute offers several programs for policy makers to get informed.
1. Congressional Delegations are brought to the headquarters of the United Nations in NY: This is the flagship program of HDI, which brings congressmen, senators, and their senior staff members to New York to meet in private and off-the-record with senior Secretariat officials and U.N. diplomats at the U.N. headquarters. More than 300 offices of congressional leaders have participated so far in the HDI sponsored delegations since this programs founding.
2. U.N. Across America: This latest HDI program takes members of the U.N. diplomatic corps to meet the people of America, from all backgrounds and with all their concerns and issues. This program has so far concentrated on reaching out to U.S. citizens outside the Northeastern corridor of the U.S. and has taken 50 U.N. diplomats to 10 different American cities. The U.N. diplomats have also met with city and state level policy makers in Detroit, Boston, and Phoenix, Portland (Maine and Oregon), Houston and more.
3. U.N. to D.C.: HDI also brings the U.N. diplomats down to Washington to meet law-makers in their own headquarters for more closed door, off-the-record policy discussions.
