July 2020

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U.S. direct-hire and Greening Diplomacy Initiative Award winner Reid Deaver (right) gives the North Macedonian Minister of the Environment Naser Nudedini (left) and Ambassador Kate M. Byrnes (center) a tour of Embassy Skopje’s environmental projects. State Department photo

Department receives public-sector Employer of the Year Award

Department leaders and EAGs commemorate Juneteenth at HST

Creating a culture of inclusion

Ben Sides, the Disability Action Group’s communications officer and Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS) special agent, is shown in front of the DS Chicago Field Office in late 2018. Sides uses an above knee prosthetic for his daily work and appreciates the accommodations provided under the ADA. Photo by Jeff Johnson

AAPI hosts panel highlighting global repatriation

Photo courtesy of AAPI

Staff members from Consulate Azores virtually attend a meet-and-greet with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the U.S. Ambassador to Portugal George Glass (center), hosted at Embassy Lisbon, Dec. 5, 2019. Photo courtesy of Embassy Portugal

Consulate Azores celebrates 225 years of diplomacy

By Kathryn Hammond Portugal’s Azores islands, an archipelago in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, celebrates the 225th anniversary as the oldest continually operating U.S. consulate in the world, July 7. Opened in 1795...

The Bureau of Overseas Buildings Affairs’ (OBO) Diversity and Inclusion virtual discussion featured OBO Director Addison "Tad" Davis IV, OBO Principal Deputy Director Henry Jardine, Deputy Assistant Secretary Mirembe Nantongo from the Bureau of Global Talent Management, and President of the National Organization of Minority Architects from the architecture firm HOK Kimberly Dowdell. Photo courtesy of OBO

OBO announces bureau-specific diversity and inclusion strategy

By Christine Foushee In line with the Department of State’s commitment to developing a cohesive Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Strategic Plan, the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) released a bureau-specific plan in May. The...

Lying in State | July 2020

Luigi Lusi, help desk coordinator for the Information Systems Center at Embassy Rome, monitors myServices—a tool used at overseas posts for submitting requests for anything from information technology, housing issues, supplies, or transportation—while working remotely from home. Photo courtesy of Luigi Lusi

Embassy Rome’s IT support promotes resilience with music

By Leon G. Galanos

Retirements | July 2020

Civil Service Batt, Eugene P.Blackwood, Ann S.Campbell, Michael A.Cole-Misch, Sara A.Crews, Earnest C.Dehm, Kathleen A.Douglass, William H.Edwards, Roger L.Park, KookheePrice, Patricia V.Rudd, Lisa J.Spencer, Aida L.Via Aaron, Susan M.Wood, Michael T.Zafke, Larry R. Foreign Service Brown, Judith...