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...
Pages of Time
Vice Consul Hiram Bingham in Marseille. He and his colleague Myles Standish issued visas to refugees at the U.S. Consulate in Marseille, saving hundreds of lives in the process. Image courtesy of the U.S....
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,...
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,...
Women of Valor
From left: Master of ceremonies Allison Kaplan Sommer, International Visitor Leadership Program alumnae and Member of Knesset Sharren Haskel of the New Hope party, and Ruth Wasserman-Lande of the Blue and White party speak...
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...
Embassy Stockholm celebrates International Women’s Day
By Jacqueline Jin
International Women’s Day, commemorated every year on March 8, is a time to reflect on the challenges women have overcome and on the obstacles and inequality they still face today. This year’s...
Panel event aims to recruit women in engineering and cybersecurity
By Kris Sivertson
Recruiting the next generation of security engineering officers (SEO) is a critical need for the Foreign Service and a top priority for the Bureau of Global Talent Management’s (GTM) Recruitment Division and...
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...
Paradigm Shift
Vice Governor Talia Cabrera (front row, fifth from left) shouts “Hui puhahi” with women from the Shuar community in Ecuador during the province’s first Academy for Women Entrepreneurs program launch, February 2020. Photo courtesy...
