Life After Foreign Service
Retirement from the Foreign Service or USAID rarely meant slowing down. For many officers, it became a second chapter full…
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Bringing the Olympic Games to Atlanta
Bringing the Olympic Games to Atlanta Foreign Service Officer Ruth A. Davis played a pivotal behind-the-scenes role in bringing the…
Evacuating American Citizens as Civil War Engulfs Freetown
Evacuating American Citizens as Civil War Engulfs Freetown Mary Annette “Ann” Wright was born in Oklahoma, grew up in Arkansas, and served…
Overseeing Aid to Nicaragua After Hurricane Mitch
Overseeing Aid to Nicaragua After Hurricane Mitch When Hurricane Mitch struck Central America in the fall of 1998, it…
ADST Office Manager
ADST Office Manager (Office Manager Position Description (PDF)) The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (ADST), a small nonprofit with a…
Countering the Spread of HIV/AIDS
Countering the Spread of HIV/AIDS During a childhood that took him from West Virginia to Kentucky and then Texas,…
Avoiding Bloodshed With IranIn the Persian Gulf
Avoiding Bloodshed With Iran In the Persian Gulf During the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, merchant ships became regular…
ADST Special Collection: AFSA Oral Histories
About AFSA The American Foreign Service Association, established in 1924, is both professional association and exclusive representative for the U.S. Foreign Service.…
Getting the Russians to Drink Pepsi
Getting the Russians to Drink Pepsi After growing up in New York City, Gilbert Robinson found himself at the…