World’s Fair Outreach
The Harlem Globetrotters wowed Expo audiences with their basketball tricks and entertaining skills during a cultural performance representing U.S. talent and diversity. Photo courtesy of the USA Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai
By Nadia Ziyadeh
The...
Retirements | May 2022
Civil Service
Ahmed, FoziaAllen, Karen J.Baxter, Lisa R.Bothwell, Mary L.Bruchnak, Kirk A.Callahan, Catherine A.Cusick, Anne K.Devlin-Foltz, Elizabeth A.Dolliff, Phillip R.Gant, Mary A.Grimes-Barton, Veda H.Hebert, MarcusHendrickx, Karen E.Ingram, William S.Johnson, Deborah A.Mencl, Roger A.Mounts, Jeffrey C.Muftugil,...
Flashback: May 1981
The cover of State Magazine’s May 1981 issue highlighted the Department of State’s growing interest in using renewable energy at posts abroad. The photo, taken at Sandia Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M, showed an early...
Blinken hosts town hall with Embassy Kyiv’s team in Poland
Secretary of State Antony Blinken hosted a town hall with members of the Embassy Kyiv team working in Poland, while visiting the country, March 5. During the town hall, Blinken acknowledged the challenges the...
Embassy partners with Special Olympics to bolster solidarity in Burkina Faso
Embassy Ouagadougou recently partnered with Burkina Faso’s Special Olympics Committee on an eighteen-month campaign to promote inclusion of individuals with disabilities through sports. The campaign will introduce Burkinabé journalists and other media influencers to...
New EAG brings working parents issues to the forefront
By Claire Kelly
In 2019, Foreign Service Officer Laura Thibault started a support group for working parents with an email listserv called Working Parents @ State (WP@S). The group quickly became an advocacy engine when...
Special Advisor on International Disability Rights warmly welcomed in Lebanon
In March, Special Advisor on International Disability Rights Sara Minkara traveled to Lebanon as part of her first official visit abroad to meet government officials and representatives of civil society and to promote the...
International Gender Champion meeting hosted in Geneva
Ambassador Sheba Crocker, U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva, hosted the Geneva Hub’s International Gender Champions (IGC) Annual Meeting, March 7. More than 80 gender champions from Geneva missions, civil society,...
Office of Refugee Admissions
Ambassador Julieta Valls Noyes (far left), then-nominee to be assistant secretary for population, refugees and migration, speaks with Department of State volunteers supporting Operation Allies Welcome at Dulles International Airport, Sept. 1, 2021. Photo...
SPEC visits first Net-Zero Energy diplomatic facility
By Evan Lewis and Stephanie Christel
Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry joined Ambassador John Hennessey-Niland and the Embassy Koror team in Palau to visit a new photovoltaic installation that will make the embassy...
