The Foreign Service Journal, March 2016

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | MARCH 2016 81 AFSA NEWS AFSA NEWS Director of Professional Policy Issues AFSA announces our first-ever director of professional policy issues: Maria Livingston. Her new department is responsible for provid- ing policy analysis and recommendations on issues affecting the health and well-being of the Foreign Service career path across all of AFSA’s constituencies. Maria joined AFSA last spring as the associate editor of The Foreign Service Journal , where she communicated association news to our members in the AFSA News section of the Journal . Prior to that, Maria served as a Foreign Service officer for eight years, with assignments to Guatemala City, Mexico City and the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs. She was also detailed to the U.S. Executive Director’s Office at the World Bank. A New Mexico native, Maria holds bachelor’s degrees in international studies and Russian from the University of Denver and a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Please join us in congratulating Maria on her new role. Retiree Representative AFSA is happy to present Isabelle Hazel, its new retiree representative. For the past two years, Isabelle has been a data-entry specialist in AFSA’s membership department. A recent graduate of The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, she has prior experience in international affairs through internships with Con- gresswoman Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.), the Council on Foreign Relations, Mayer Brown JSM in Hong Kong and Doctors Without Borders. Isabelle has thor- oughly enjoyed engaging with members of the For- eign Service in a supportive capacity during her time at AFSA and is eager to build even more relation- ships through her new role as retiree representative. AFSA welcomes Isabelle to the team! n ANNOUNCEMENTS