Hometown Diplomats
By Maura M. Pfeifer
When Mia ter Haar spoke to ninth graders at Holmes Junior High, in Davis, Calif., she had hoped to give back to her hometown and inspire the next generation to think...
American service members’ remains returned from Papua New Guinea
The U.S. Embassy in Papua New Guinea and the Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) fulfilled America’s promise to the families of fallen World War II service members at a repatriation ceremony for...
Lusaka colleagues build watering hole for orphan elephants
By Carol Borg
When the J. Kirby Simon Foreign Service Trust announced their annual call for proposals, Steve Manders jumped at the chance to use his skills to make a difference. Manders is a retired...
The Human Dimension
Ambassador Michael G. Kozak represents the United States of America during the opening session of the Warsaw Human Dimension Conference in Warsaw, Sept. 26. Photo by Mahvish S. Khan
By Mahvish S. Khan
The Organization for...
GLOBE aims to make science education cool in Estonia
By Megan NaylorFor 25 years, the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) program has been making science cool for students across Estonia. In August, with the support of visiting NASA scientists,...
ENR delegation launches ‘Women in Energy Strategy’ in Fiji
By Maxine Lunn and Marina Kelly
On the heels of the first-ever U.S.-Pacific Island Country Summit in Washington, a three-person delegation from the Bureau of Energy Resources (ENR), led by Deputy Assistant Secretary Laura Lochman,...
Tashkent-sponsored camp counters violence against women
By Utkirbek Tadjimov
With the combined goals of empowering women and combating gender-based violence, the public diplomacy (PD) section at Embassy Tashkent launched its inaugural self-defense camp for women and girls in 2021. The effort,...
Vienna roundtable highlights civil society organizations
U.S. Ambassador to the Vienna Office of the United Nations Laura S.H. Holgate (far right) and Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Deputy Assistant Secretary Heide Fulton (second from right) co-led a roundtable...
Sports envoys inspire girls and women
Mission New Zealand and Samoa’s public diplomacy section, working with the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs’ Office of Sports Diplomacy, recently engaged in a three city, two country Sports Envoy program with Dr....
