Foreign Agricultural Service
Evan Mangino, Vice President
Welcome to the FAS page of the AFSA website. We look forward to working closely with the membership to establish priorities and set an ambitious agenda for this board's term, including both the broad AFSA-wide issues that face FSOs and those that are specific to FAS. We are honored to have the opportunity to represent FAS Foreign Service officers, and our leadership with be membership-driven. FAS FSOs: We are eager to talk with you to hear your concerns, ideas, and suggested solutions. We are a creative, passionate, and dedicated team, and we are confident that we can come up with innovative ways to solve the challenges facing us, both current and future.
Please check this page for updates and helpful links, as well as general information regarding our work.
Please visit the Foreign Agricultural Service web page.
Recent FSJ Articles
- Explain Yourself (Dec 2024)
- Ushering in the Next Chapter (Jul-Aug 2024)
- It’s Not All Unicorns and Rainbows? (Jan-Feb 2024)
- Small but Mighty, Not More with Less (Oct 2023)
- Cultivating the Next Generation of Ag Leaders (Apr 2023)
- Time to Modernize Our Collective Bargaining Agreement (Jan-Feb 2023)
- Capitalizing on a Recovering FAS Foreign Service (Nov 2022)
- The True Cost of FAS’ Administrative Burden (Sep 2022)
- Standing Behind Those Who Step Up (May 2022)
- Looking Back, Moving Forward (May 2018)
- Career Development: Training Should Not Be a One-Time Event (Mar 2018)
- The Demographic Crisis (Dec 2017)
- Seeking Solutions and Sustainability (Sep 2017)
Contacts and Related Links
Collective Bargaining Agreements
- FAS Collective Bargaining Agreement (April 27, 2017)
- FAS Certification of Representative MOU Collective Bargaining Agreement (June 2, 1994)