THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | SEPTEMBER 2023 63 AFSA NEWS and political-military affairs officer in Jerusalem from 2011 to 2014. Since joining the Foreign Service in 2002, Ms. Harrington has also served in overseas assignments 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. She received a bachelor’s degree in international 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. She was a State representative on the 2021-2023 AFSA Governing Board. DAVID JOSAR STATE REPRESENTATIVE David Josar joined the State Department in 2010 as a public diplomacy officer but in 2023 changed skill codes and is now a consular officer. He served as vice consul in Angola and Chile; as information officer in Phnom Penh; as fraud prevention manager in Hyderabad; and is currently assigned to children’s issues in Washington, D.C., where he works on resolving cases of international parental child abduction. His onward assignment will be as deputy consular chief in Myanmar. He was on the ground in Kabul as part of the department’s evacuation efforts in Afghanistan. Mr. Josar is married and has a seventh grade daughter who was born in South Africa when he was assigned to Angola. His wife, who worked at post as an eligible family member (EFM) in Chile and India, is currently pursuing a master’s degree in landscape architecture. Prior to joining the State Department, Mr. Josar was a newspaper reporter for 20 years. He has a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Rochester and a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University. He was born in Allentown, Pa. C. LOGAN WHEELER STATE REPRESENTATIVE C. Logan Wheeler joins the Governing Board in 2023 in his 15th year as a Foreign Service officer. A political-coned officer, Mr. Wheeler currently serves as an assessor with the department’s Board of Examiners. His prior tours include U.S. Embassy Bogotá as chief of the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL) Policy Division, U.S. Embassy Asunción as acting political/economic chief, Bolivia desk officer, Operations Center watch officer, U.S. Embassy Dar es Salaam as a political officer, and U.S. Embassy Moscow as a consular officer. Mr. Wheeler holds a master’s degree in sequential art from the Savannah College of Art and Design, a master’s degree in public policy from Tec de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico, and a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and Russian from Rhodes College in his home state of Tennessee. His wife, Molly, is an assistant professor with St. Catherine’s University in Saint Paul, Minn. They have two children. WHITNEY WIEDEMAN STATE REPRESENTATIVE Whitney Wiedeman has been a Foreign Service officer since 2007. He has served in Ciudad Juárez, Dusseldorf, Bogotá, in Washington, D.C. (in the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement’s Western Hemisphere Programs, INL/WHP), Guatemala City, Kabul, and most recently Oslo. Prior to joining the State Department, he worked as a prosecutor and defense attorney in Texas. He is married and the father of three children born on three continents. CHRISTOPHER SAENGER USAID REPRESENTATIVE Chris Saenger currently leads USAID’s Ukraine unit in the Europe and Eurasia Bureau. Since joining USAID in 2009, he has served in Ecuador, Iraq, Washington, D.C. (as Jordan desk officer), USAID’s Middle East Regional Platform covering Tunisia and Libya, and, most recently, as program office director in Colombia. He has also served as co-chair of the Program Officer Field Advisory Council and is a volunteer facilitator in the RISE program. Mr. Saenger grew up in Delaware but has been a proud District of Columbia resident since 2003. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University and a master’s degree in international development from American University. His wife, Caroline Adams Saenger, is a landscape painter. They have two children.
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