Banneker High School Student Selected NCIV D.C. Delegate |

From David Glaser: The National Capital Bank of Washington (NCB) is pleased to announce Brandon Holden, a senior at Banneker Academic Senior High School, has been selected as the DC Delegate to the National Council for International Visitors (NCIV) 2012 Citizen Diplomacy Program for Emerging Leaders. 

Brandon, a resident of Ward 4, will join 12 other young people at the NCIV Annual National Meeting in Washington, DC on February 15-18, 2012. National Capital Bank has provided significant financial support for this program. 

“National Capital Bank is proud to support Brandon’s participation in the NCIV Citizen Diplomacy Program for Emerging Leaders,” said Richard A. Didden, NCB Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “As a community bank focused on supporting the communities we serve, we are delighted that he was selected to participate in this program. He is a promising young man with a bright future ahead of him.” 

“This program will help instill in the next generation of young leaders the importance of international relations, and of being an engaged global citizen,” said Mark Rebstock, Interim President of NCIV. “We appreciate National Capital Bank’s support of our efforts to develop strong, multi-generational leadership for NCIV.” 

Selection for the program was highly competitive and based on Brandon’s previous experience as a 2010 recipient of a US State Department National Security Language Initiative for Youth Scholarship. In addition, he is an award-winning participant in the Global Classrooms Model UN Program, and a member of the Stephen T. Johns ‘Bringing The Lessons Home’ Ambassador Program at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, in which he serves as a tour guide, researcher and facilitator of survivor interviews. He will be attending Bucknell University in Fall 2012.