Appreccia D. Faulkner is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Global Strategists Association, an international nonprofit striving to increase global engagement among the African Diaspora. She founded the organization in 2013 to promote diversity, racial equity, inclusion and justice in global affairs. The organization is committed to Changing The Face of Global Affairs 2023 Fellow of the International Career Advancement Program, sponsored by the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and the Aspen Institute. She was selected for the Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS) 2021 US National Security and Foreign Affairs Leadership List, a bipartisan coalition highlighting unique and notable contributions in the national security and foreign affairs arena. She is a 2021 Truman National Security Project Fellow and a 2020 Emerging Leader with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

She is a 2019 Global Ambassador with the Institute of Economics and Peace hosted by the Global Peace Index and a 2019 Fellow at Upswell hosted by Independent Sector. She has hosted and curated several thought provoking events designed to platform emerging and established Black leaders on today's most foreign and domestic issues. Under Appreccia’s tutelage Global Strategists Association has partnered with University of Chicago, U.S. Department of State, and many other local and global institutions. In 2017 she was one of seven Co-Chairs for The United State of Women Galvanize Chicago conference. The three day event was attended by over one thousand women looking to contribute to public policy and America’s political posterity. She travels the country speaking on disruptive leadership, Black diplomacy, racial equity in foreign policy,  and the importance of democratizing global affairs. 

Appreccia is a native Chicagoan who graduated from Kennedy-King College with an Associates and later studied Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University in Washington D.C. before obtaining her Bachelors Degree at Chicago State University. She is currently a regular contributor on WJOU’s radio program 'Reimagining Our World’ where she discusses the importance of civic engagement and Black diplomacy.