The Foreign Service Journal, September 2021

AFSA NEWS 60 SEPTEMBER 2021 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL CAMILLE DOCKERY STATE REPRESENTATIVE Camille Dockery is a management-coned Foreign Service officer currently serving as an assignments officer in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Prior to that, she completed a consular tour in Ciudad Juarez. Ms. Dockery worked previously in the Bureaus of Intelli- gence and Research, Global Talent Management and Diplo- matic Security. Before joining the Foreign Service, she worked in the office of Congressman Jim Matheson of Utah. The daughter of a tandem couple (a Diplomatic Security special agent and a Foreign Service officer), Ms. Dockery originally hails from Houston, Texas, but lived abroad as a Foreign Service dependent for most of her childhood. She was a Latin American studies major and history minor at Brigham Young University. Outside the office, Ms. Dockery is an avid reader, cook and moviegoer. She looks forward to exploring Washington, D.C., more during the next two years. KIMBERLY D. HARRINGTON STATE REPRESENTATIVE Kim Harrington is currently director of the Office of Policy Analysis and Public Diplo- macy in the Bureau of Energy Resources. In her most recent overseas posting, she served as political and economic coun- selor at Embassy Kampala, including five months during the COVID-19 pandemic as acting deputy chief of mission. She was deputy economic counselor at Embassy Bogotá from 2014 to 2018 and political-military affairs officer in Jerusa- lem from 2011 to 2014. Since joining the Foreign Service in 2002, Ms. Harrington has also served overseas in Manila, Cairo and Tripoli. At the department, she worked as a staff assistant in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs. On detail at the Pentagon during the Arab Spring, she worked as an adviser in the Joint Staff’s Office of Strategic Plans and Policy (J-5) for the Middle East. Ms. Harrington received a bachelor’s degree in interna- tional politics from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service and studied abroad at the American University in Cairo. She has a master’s degree in national resource strategy from National Defense University. Ms. Harrington and her husband, a USAID Foreign Service officer, have two young children. MARIA I. HART STATE REPRESENTATIVE Maria I. Hart is a Foreign Service special- ist, currently serving as a staff assistant in the Bureau of Legislative Affairs. She joined the Foreign Service in 2005. Previously Ms. Hart served overseas as an office management specialist at U.S. Embassies Accra, Tel Aviv, Baghdad, Tashkent, Wellington, Madagascar and, most recently, a two-year stint at U.S. Embassy Kabul. Before joining the Foreign Service, she began her State Department career as a citizen services specialist in the Office of Children’s Issues, where she successfully facilitated the return of more than 50 children wrongfully removed from the United States under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. She later transferred to the Office of the Inspector Gen- eral as a management analyst. Ms. Hart earned a bachelor’s degree in communications (film and television studies) from Queens College in Flush- ing, New York, and a master’s degree in news and print journalism from Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She did postgraduate work in African studies at Howard University in Washington, D.C. She joined the AFSA Governing Board in 2020. CHRISTY MACHAK STATE REPRESENTATIVE Christy Machak is deputy director of the Counterterrorism Bureau’s Office of Terrorist Screening and Interdiction Programs. Before that, she was political unit chief in The Hague. Previous assign- ments include political-military officer in Dhaka, Kosovo desk officer, watch officer in the Nuclear Risk Reduction Center, consular officer in Port of Spain and general services officer in Berlin. Ms. Machak joined the Foreign Service in 2006 as a political-coned officer. She is a Rangel Fellow and a member of the 2014 class of the Program for Emerging Leaders at the Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction at the National Defense University. Ms. Machak received a bachelor’s degree in political sci- ence and international studies from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, and a master’s degree in security policy from George Washington University. She and her husband, David, have a son and a daughter. They call Ohio home.