The Foreign Service Journal, September 2015

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | SEPTEMBER 2015 79 AFSA NEWS LORRA I NE SHERMAN USAID REPRESENTATIVE Lorraine Sherman is a career Foreign Service officer with USAID. She currently serves as senior adviser to the Office of Transition Initiatives within the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance. She was previously a congres- sional liaison officer with the Bureau for Legislative and Public Affairs and an executive officer in Nairobi, Kabul and Pristina. She is a decorated U.S. Army veteran with bachelor’s degrees from Rutgers University, a Juris Doctor from Boston Univer- sity School of Law and a master’s degree from the School of Advanced Military Studies at the Command and General Staff College. Sherman resides in Orlando, Florida, and Rosslyn, Virginia. SAMUE L TH I E LMAN STATE REPRESENTATIVE Samuel Thielman has worked as a psy- chiatrist for the Department of State since 1999. Currently senior adviser for resil- ience at the Foreign Service Institute, he has previously served as director of Mental Health Services and regional psychiatrist for East and Central Africa, the Horn of Africa, and Central and Western Europe. He also helped develop the department’s High Stress Assignment Outbriefing program. A resident of Montreat, North Carolina, Dr. Thielman received his training at Duke University. He is the author of more than 40 professional publications and currently holds adjunct academic positions at the Duke University School of Medicine and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. PATR I C I A WI NGERTER STATE PREPRESENTATIVE Patricia “Tricia”Wingerter is an office management specialist who has served at more than nine posts in three regional bureaus. Wingerter recently transferred from Embassy London to take up the position of logistical coordinator for the ambassadorial seminar at the Foreign Service Institute’s Leadership and Management School. n