mpd brazil 2014
![MPD students meeting at the State of São Paulo Governor's Palace with Helena Monteiro de Oliveira, Coordinator of International Cooperation for the State of São Paulo's Office of Foreign Affairs. Photo credit Neftalie Williams](https://uscpublicdiplomacy.org/sites/default/files/styles/275x168/public/uploads/Screen%20Shot%202014-03-10%20at%2010.11.07%20AM.png?itok=krQP2rsc)
In early February, 7 USC Master of Public Diplomacy students embarked for São Paulo, Brazil. We arrived with just a day to get acclimated to the city before our meetings began on Monday. As students of diplomacy, the logical choice for a research trip to Brazil might be Brasilia. As the capital, it hosts the country's diplomatic corps and would certainly make a worthy case study of how diplomacy works in Brazil. While traditional diplomacy will always be worth pursuing, we are not going to Brazil to study it.