The Foreign Service Journal, June 2016

60 JUNE 2016 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL AFSA NEWS AFSAWelcomes New Staff Ken Fanelli joins AFSA as the new publications specialist. He brings extensive experience in publishing, mar- keting and copywriting, most recently with the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association. Originally from Philadel- phia, Ken has a master’s degree in non-profit manage- ment from Eastern University in St. David’s, Pennsylvania. A former intern for Senator Claiborne Pell (D-R.I.), who was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1987 to 1995, he is an avid reader of nonfiction and biography with a strong inter- est in diplomatic history. Ken has three children, is active in the Episcopal Church and is an accomplished photogra- pher. He lives inWest Virginia with his wife and two cats. Catherine Kannenberg is AFSA’s new out- reach coordina- tor, a position which focuses on strategic partnerships and targeted outreach. Catherine has a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and brings extensive experience in editing, teaching and program management. Raised in a Foreign Service family and married to a career Foreign Service officer, Catherine has lived in a great variety of places, from Italy to Turkey, South Korea and Venezuela. She and her husband were posted in Ghana, Germany and Uganda, and they have just returned from Sudan, his last posting before retire- ment. Catherine enjoys tennis, yoga, cooking and, of course, traveling. Gemma Dvorak joins AFSA as associate editor for The Foreign Service Journal, respon- sible for AFSANews. Gemma brings seven years of locally employed staff experience, joining us from Embassy London. A consular specialist, she fielded enquiries from the public on consular matters, maintained the embassy’s consular webpages and pioneered the consular social media efforts. Earlier she spent two years as a constitu- ency/legislative aide for Sir Simon Hughes, a Member of the U.K. Parliament. A native of Great Britain, Gemma has a bachelor’s degree in history and politics from the University of East Anglia. She is married to a Diplomatic Security special agent currently stationed in theWashington Field Office. They live in Fairfax, Virginia. Jennie Orloff is the new execu- tive assistant to AFSA President Ambassador Barbara Ste- phenson and Executive Direc- tor Ian Houston. A Foreign Service spouse, she previously served in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the Department of State and as community liaison officer at Embassy Cotonou. Before moving overseas, she worked in the Office of Data and Accountability at D.C. Public Schools and at Russell Reynolds Associates, where she recruited execu- tives to nongovernmental organizations and health care organizations. She began her career as a paralegal at the Department of Justice. Jennie holds a B.A. in government/ law and French from Lafayette College and an M.A. in educa- tion fromGeorgeWashington University. n 2016 Summer Interns Arrive at AFSA AFSA is happy to welcome our new interns. • Advocacy: Two interns will join the advocacy depart- ment this summer. Miami, Florida, native Orianne Gonzalez is an interna- tional relations senior at the University of Central Florida; and Vanessa Sorrentino is a sophomore at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Her hometown is Brooklyn, New York. • Awards: Eunice Ajayi is an English major at Rutgers University, where she also minors in political science and Korean. Her hometown is Severn, Maryland. • Communications: Mar- tin Vasev, a native of Bulgaria, joins us fromYale-NUS Col- lege in Singapore, where he is a student majoring in philoso- phy, politics and economics. • Executive Office: Alyssa Godfrey studies international relations and mathematics at the University of St. Andrews, where she is a sophomore. Alyssa hails from Poway, California. As we went to print, our Labor Management and Advertising interns had yet to be selected. We thank departing interns John Balle, Briar Blount, Koen Valks, Jessie Shin, Blake Ladenburg, Allison Bailey, Kathryn McGirk and Marcy O’Halloran for their great work this past spring and wish them the best. n