Equity Equation
An Optelec Traveler HD Electronic Video Magnifier displayed at the Access Center allows users to comfortably read magnified text via its unique slide and read mechanism. Photo by Ron Przysucha
By Heidi Howland
“o have a...
New embassy building symbolizes U.S.-Türkiye relationship
By Evan Lewis
The U.S. embassy team in Ankara, Türkiye, bid farewell to their former embassy building in the Kavaklidere neighborhood and began operations at their new campus, Aug. 29. The new embassy is situated...
Ambassador participates in historic visit
In a landmark first visit by an American ambassador to the Garma Festival of Traditional Cultures, and her own first visit to the Northern Territory of Australia, Ambassador Caroline Kennedy (right) traveled to remote...
The Conflict Observatory
By Natasha Christensen, Susan Wolfinbarger, and Jason Lapadula
In the days leading up to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Feb. 24, the Kremlin’s rhetoric unveiled a looming threat and an aggressor bent on violating the...
Diplomatic Engine Room
Watch and Crisis Management Officers, from left: Chukwudi Nwadibia, Jasmine Lopez, Lauren O’Doherty, Emily Yu, and Hermes Grullon, who participated in the Pickering Fellowship, stand outside the remodeled Operations Center, August 2022. Photo courtesy...
Suriname Speaker’s Program hosts NASA engineer
The public diplomacy section at Embassy Paramaribo hosted NASA Engineer Z. Nagin Cox as part of a Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Speaker’s Program, Aug. 8-12. This event supported the section’s programming on...
Mission Poland speaker series advances U.S. policy goals
By Madison Krstich
A month after submitting his credentials, U.S. Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski launched the Businessperson/Statesperson Speaker Series, centered around the notion that business leaders of today have unique insights to share. Invited...
Beyond Guadalcanal
Ambassador Caroline Kennedy (left) poses with descendants of Solomon Islanders Eroni Kumana (center) and Biuku Gasa (right), to whom she presented medals, Aug. 7. State Department photo
By Jason Raskin
The arrival of thousands of U.S....
Retirements | October 2022
Civil Service
Allridge, Nayda R.Al-Mahdi, Ibrahim K.Barnes IV, James M.Benham, Renate M.Booth, Sherry L.Burton, BarbaraButts, Gerald C.Carhart Jr., Robert N.Chaisson, Karen M.Claytor, Martin J.Fijn Van Draat, Jenny E.Gomez, Berta M.Hadrick, Susan D.Hopkins, Robert L.Jarvis, Geucileia...
