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Embassy Beirut’s Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Liaisons are responsible for ensuring all their colleagues received mandatory EEO training. Team members include (from left) Joe Aad, Elias Safi, Arabella Barbir, Aline Diab, Guy Khairallah, and Elias Alhaddad. Photo by Fady Dagher

LE staff EEO Liaisons fill critical roles

A DSS art exhibit attendee views the works of Morrie Turner, a Tuskegee Airmen mechanic during World War II, who learned cartooning via a correspondence course. His mentor, “Peanuts” cartoonist Charles Schulz, encouraged him to create “Wee Pals,” the first American syndicated strip with an integrated cast of characters. State Department photo

DSS hosts art exhibition celebrating African American History Month

Diversity and Inclusion Council hosts inaugural outreach event

Sports Visitor Program participants from Mexico play sitting volleyball while at the Lakeshore Foundation in Birmingham, Ala. Photo courtesy of Cooperative Partner FHI 360

Sports Diplomacy focuses on inclusive initiatives

Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Human Resources Carol Z. Perez listens as Ambassador John J. Sullivan shares personal stories from throughout his career that highlighted diversity and inclusion, Jan. 6. Photo by Luis A. Jimenez Jr.

Department leaders discuss diversity and inclusion in the workforce

From left: Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale, Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Human Resources Carol Z. Perez, and Director of the Office of Civil Rights Gregory Smith sign the project charter for the creation of OAA’s new assistive technology center at the Department’s NDEAM celebration, Oct. 24. The center is scheduled to open in early 2020. Photo by Photo by Amanda J. Richard

NDEAM celebrates talent and highlights resources

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen shares his storyteller observations on representation, voice and refugees at AAFAA’s keynote event, May 17. Photo by Amanda J. Richard

The power of narrative and representation

From left: The Pol/Econ team at the embassy art opening Patricia Viscarra, Patricia Kehoe, Brent Corby, Chargé d’Affaires Bruce Williamson, Kimberly Austin, Jose Ribero, Rolf Olson, Stephanie Guerra-Smith, Javier Lopez-Videla and Martin Palermo enjoys showcasing their newly acquired artwork. Photo by Carmen Julia Arze

Embassy La Paz showcases artists with disabilities

World Cup champion and Olympic gold medalist Alex Morgan joined the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), the Bureau of International Information Programs and Mission Tanzania for a Facebook Live event, March 21, to celebrate Women’s History Month. The event kicked off ECA’s “Step In, Dream Big” initiative ahead of the 2019 Women’s World Cup to tap into the power of role models, encouraging girls to step into their potential and realize their dreams. Youth athletes, coaches and advocates from Tanzania (where Morgan served as a Department of State sports envoy in 2017) and 20 U.S. embassies, consulates and American centers in Africa, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, and South and Central Asia interacted live with Morgan for a 45-minute question and answer session.

Olympian Alex Morgan participates in ECA social media event

The Bureau of International Information Programs Diversity Working Group—partnering with the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs and the Department of State’s Disability Action Group—hosted the co-founders of John’s Crazy Socks, John and Mark Cronin, March 5. The father-and-son entrepreneur team shared how they took John’s vision to market and now run a company with global recognition. Their company includes 39 employees, 23 of whom have disabilities.

Diversity team shares entrepreneurial success

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