Retirements | June 2022
Civil Service
Bedi, Kristin T.Bennett, Bruce W.Berger, Kevin E.Bowlby, David L.Coker, Elizabeth A.Cook, Gaisha R.Feagans, Margaret W.Flynn, Keith F.Forte, Timothy S.Fuentes, Winnie J.Gallagher, Dennis J.Gillmore, Shirley J.Harvey, Kim M.Jones, Anthony T.Kardosh, Raghida Koutsis, Maude G.Lyew, Lloyd...
Powerful Voices
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (back row center) and the U.S. delegation to the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, September 1995. Photo courtesy of the White House
By Cait Dallaire
Former Secretary of...
Future Vision
By Heather McHugh
In support of President Joe Biden’s Executive Order on Transforming Federal Customer Experience and Service Delivery to Rebuild Trust in the Government, the Bureau of Consular Affairs (CA) realized a major milestone,...
Mission Poland welcomes Americans fleeing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
By Michele Giovia
In the early hours of Feb. 24, 2022, Mission Poland’s American Citizen Welcome Center in the southeastern border town of Przemyśl received its first visitors—a family who had fled Ukraine as news...
U.S. and Somalia partner to save lives
By Oznur Alturk
Embassy Mogadishu’s interagency participation in Somalia’s National Weapons and Ammunition Management (WAM) Coordination Meeting reiterated the U.S. government’s strong commitment to increasing security and assisting the Somali government with peacebuilding efforts to...
Time Honored Tradition
Then-Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Global Talent Carol Z. Perez records remarks for Foreign Affairs Day, April 19. Photo by Isaac D. Pacheco
By Amanda McCarthy
Welcoming retirees and recognizing their service...
Embassy Bujumbura promotes socio-economic empowerment
Ambassador Melanie Higgins (front, third from left) joined program participants at the Ministry of Gender and U.N. Population Fund in the official launch of the “Nje Mu Bandi” Center in Burundi, March 25. The...
Workforce Investment
By Stacy D. Williams
Following the murder of George Floyd in May 2020 and the subsequent global reckoning on systemic racial inequality, the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs (WHA) held two bureau-wide virtual town hall meetings to...
