Documenting Diplomacy and Writing History
By Adam Howard, Kristin Ahlberg, and Joshua Botts
In 2021, the Foreign Service Institute’s (FSI’s) Office of the Historian (OH) celebrated three important anniversaries: the 100th anniversary of the creation of OH’s institutional predecessors, the...
Women of OBO Construction
By Misty Boykin, Susana Kyrgos, Molly McCormick, Sonia M. Miranda-Palacios, and Susan Patton
In March 2011, an article in State Magazine highlighted 10 women serving as Foreign Service construction engineers (FSCEs) in the Bureau of...
Mission India leaders gather in-person once again
Chargé d’Affaires Patricia Lacina and the Country Team hosted the consuls general from Mission India’s four consulates for a “Consuls General Conclave,” during the first week of November. Normally a quarterly gathering, this was...
Embassy Ghana assumes security leadership role in West Africa
As part of Ghana-U.S. security cooperation, the United States is providing in-person peer-to-peer training and technical assistance to members of the Ghana Armed Forces. Deputy Chief of Mission Nicole Chulick (right side of table, far...
Embassy Kingston honors Colin Powell’s legacy
By Bobby Adelson
Embassy Kingston honored the late, former-Secretary of State Colin Powell, whose parents were both born in Jamaica, with a wreath laying ceremony and a permanent installation of Powell's official portrait in the...
New embassy building dedicated in Maputo
By Vanessa Rozier Toscano
Embassy Maputo formally dedicated its new, state-of-the-art embassy campus with representatives from the Mozambican government, political parties, civil society, the private sector, academia, and the media, Sept. 30. The event signaled...
Portsmouth State Annexes
By Trenton Douthett
On a former U.S. Air Force base in Portsmouth, N.H., 400 Department of State employees and more than 1,000 contractors work cooperatively to strengthen national security on a case-by-case basis. The National...
Azerbaijan ambassador meets students studying English
From left: Ambassador to Azerbaijan Lee Litzenberger and Information Officer Alys Spensley met with internally displaced students studying English at the American Corner in Ganja, Azerbaijan’s second largest city. The embassy has partnered with...
German-American Friendship Day deepens ties in eastern German state
Consulate General Leipzig conducted a day of strategic outreach in the eastern German state of Thuringia for the first ever German-American Friendship Day, held in Jena, Oct. 6. Despite the far-right Alternative for Germany...
Department’s novel enterprise data strategy drives change
By Matthew Graviss
The September 2021 release of the Department of State’s “Enterprise Data Strategy (EDS)—Empowering Data Informed Diplomacy,” marked a major milestone in its transformation into a more data-centric organization. The Department’s first-ever data...
