FOCUS ON DEIA: FOUNDATIONS FOR PROGRESS
A difficult mandate, significant strides, stubborn challenges ahead: State’s first chief diversity and inclusion officer reviews the past two years.
BY GINA ABERCROMBIE-WINSTANLEY
A Senior Foreign Service officer who was charged with advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs distills lessons learned.
BY MARIANNE SCOTT
The State Department’s first employee association looks toward the next 50 years as a dynamic force for progress in the foreign affairs community.
BY YOLONDA KERNEY AND KRYSTLE NORMAN
A participant recounts the beginnings of women’s quest for career equity five decades ago.
BY MARGUERITE COOPER
A senior FSO opens up about the legal effort to gain consideration for members of the FS and their families with medical conditions.
BY PAUL M. CARTER JR.
An FSO with USAID shares his story.
BY JESSE GUTIERREZ
COVER STORY
Two ambassadors look back on what happened and what it means now.
This fund for victims of international terrorism needs to be better known, explains an FS survivor of the East Africa bombings.
BY LEE ANN ROSS
FEATURE
A young banker’s firsthand account of the unofficial evacuation when Saigon fell.
BY D. Z. STONE
APPRECIATION
BY DONNA SCARAMASTRA GORMAN
PERSPECTIVES
A Fond but Cautionary Farewell
BY ERIC RUBIN
Tragic Markers and Progress Milestones
BY SHAWN DORMAN
Boomerang Diplomats? Another Look at Reappointment
BY SONNET FRISBIE
Is Iran Back to 1979?
BY GEORGE LAMBRAKIS
Petra, Jordan
BY LARRY MANDEL
DEPARTMENTS
AFSA NEWS
Looking Back on Four Years as State VP
BY TOM YAZDGERDI
(Best) Places to Work—Let’s Do Better
BY JASON SINGER
The Journey Continues
BY JOHN K. NALAND
