THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | OCTOBER 2023 63 AFSA NEWS FSJ Editorial Board Welcomes New Members, Chair The Foreign Service Journal is pleased to welcome to its editorial board a new chair as well as four new members for the 2023-2025 term: active-duty State FSOs David Bargueño and Lynette Behnke, active-duty USAID FSO Steven Hendrix, and former State FSO Dan Spokojny. Vivian Walker, board member since 2019, State Department FSO, and executive director of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, was appointed chair of the FSJ Editorial Board in July after the departure of newly retired FSO Alexis Ludwig, who had held the position since 2018. David Bargueño joined the Foreign Service in 2012 and currently serves as the “climate guy” (and deputy counselor for environment, science, technology, and health affairs) at U.S. Mission Brazil. His previous overseas assignments include Afghanistan, Pakistan, South Africa, and Brazil (São Paulo). In Washington, D.C., he worked in the Office of the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate and the Secretary of State’s Office of Global Food Security. Bargueño earned a bachelor’s degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and a master’s degree from Yale University. An avid runner, he lives in Brasilia with his husband, son, and two Rhodesian Ridgeback hounds. Lynette Behnke, a Foreign Service officer since 2006, was elected to the AFSA Governing Board in 2023 and serves as that body’s liaison to the Editorial Board. Her full biography appeared in the September 2023 FSJ. Steven E. Hendrix is the USAID senior coordinator for the Department of State’s Office of U.S. Foreign Assistance and managing director for planning, performance, and systems. Previously, he served as senior adviser for USAID’s programs in South America and was also deputy mission director for USAID/Ghana. He served in Bolivia, Nigeria, Paraguay, Iraq, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and in USAID’s Bureaus of Latin America and the Caribbean, and Science and Technology. Before joining USAID, he was with the University of Wisconsin Land Tenure Center and the UW Law School Institute for Legal Studies. Hendrix holds a B.A. in economics and Spanish from Carroll College, a J.D. and an M.A. in Ibero-American studies from the University of Wisconsin, an LL.D. from Universidad Mayor de San Andrés in Bolivia, and an S.J.D. from Universidad de San Carlos in Guatemala. Since 1999, he has been a Fellow with DePaul University Law School’s International Human Rights Institute. He has published more than 100 professional articles and two books. Dan Spokojny is the founder and chief executive officer of fp21, a foreign policy think tank at the nexus of government, academia, and tech. It partners with the State Department and other organizations to improve the quality of the policymaking process. A former Foreign Service officer, Spokojny served abroad in Lithuania, Belarus, and Pakistan, and in Washington, D.C., on the Pakistan desk, in the Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, and in the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations. He served on the AFSA Governing Board from 2014 to 2015. Prior to joining the State Department, Spokojny worked as a legislative aide in Congress focused primarily on foreign policy issues. He is also pursuing a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the nature of expertise in foreign policy. b A fond farewell and deep thanks to Bronwyn Llewellyn, Maryum Saifee, and Joe Tordella, who have left the Editorial Board. We thank them for their thoughtful guidance and contributions to the editorial direction of the Journal. n David Bargueño Dan Spokojny Steven Hendrix Lynette Behnke Vivian Walker
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