Carla Dirlikov Canales

Carla Dirlikov Canales is an international opera singer who is emerging as a leader in the area of using the arts to advance important social issues. She was selected by Foreign Policy Magazine as one of its 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2015 and won the Medal of Excellence from the Sphinx Organization. She is currently a double fellow at Harvard University where she leads a study group on Cultural Diplomacy, and an Arts Envoy for the US State Department. She is the founder of The Canales Project and currently a Professor of Practice at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.