YES! The Cuba program with Go Learn lives on, and has no threat of being interrupted.

Since 2015 the University of Utah’s Go Learn Program has visited Cuba on an annual basis. Limited to the size of 20 participants, over the years we made a small but important contribution to both, Cuban-American relations at large as well as people-to-people impact on a personal level.

Our fully sanctioned and licensed program is not threatened by political rhetoric. Over the years we have forged amazing contacts with local and international journalists, architects, city planners, musicians, artists, farmers, and many private, family enterprises such as our bed and breakfast hosts and restaurant owners. With each group we send we make emotional, intellectual, and financial impact on the ground. Our Cuban friends love us and vice versa, our trip participants leave with a special place in their hearts for the Cuban people. We are proud to conduct Citizen Diplomacy on the micro-level.

In traveling to a place one has not only the pleasure to receive, but the obligation to give back. It is more important than ever to visit Cuba, to enjoy its beauty, to meet its people, and to give back on so many levels; to be American. As Gandhi said: “Be the change you want to see!”, we have the obligation to learn, to give, and to change, as well as to enjoy and live life with Mojito in hand dancing into the Caribbean night.

Christoph Dressler
Director, Go Learn, University of Utah