In addition to its key issue areas, the Mexico Institute works on several special initiatives:

• "Dialogues with Mexico/Dialogos con Mexico": This ongoing speaker series brings leading speakers from Mexico to address pressing issues of interest.
   
• The Congressional Initiative: The Wilson Center organizes frequent briefings on the Hill to bring analysis and discussion of U.S.-Mexico policy options to U.S. congressional audiences.  In 2010, the Center organized a special trip to Mexico City and Zacatecas for a select group of senior congressional staff in May to discuss bilateral relations.
   
• The Public Policy Scholars Program: The Mexico Institute collaborates with the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations (COMEXI) each year for the Mexico Public Policy Scholars Program. The objective of the Program is to allow a period of advanced research and a publication about political policy, in order to bring together the academic and policy communities in the United States and in Mexico.
   
• Mexican Rural Development: This study on Mexican corn policy since NAFTA was made possible thanks to a grant from the Global Development Program of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and reflects collaboration between the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ Mexico Institute, the University of California, Santa Cruz and researchers from CIDE, the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas.