On April 27, 2017, UN Ambassador I. Rhonda King, Permanent Representative to the United Nations from St. Vincent and the Grenadines read the resolution to the UN General Assembly for World Creativity and Innovation Day to be an International Day of Observance. WCID founder, Marci Segal, explains how this came to be, speaking at her alma mater's 50th-anniversary celebration six months later, the International Center for Studies in Creativity at SUNY Buffalo.