The Foreign Service Journal, November 2007

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His team puts together adver- tising information charts tomake naviga- tion of information easier, and has added “Marketplace” to the AFSA Web site (www.afsa.org/ads ) to offer an online compilationof advertiser information. Ed has sought tomaximize thepotential of the Internet to bring advertisers — and their services—and the Journal ’s unique read- ership together to benefit both. Originally fromCumberland,Md., Ed came to AFSA from years of internation- al work and travel. After graduating from Frostburg State College in 1986, he joined thePeaceCorps and served inEcuador and then Bolivia, spending a total of six years in Latin America. Following his return to the U.S., he worked for the Cochran Fellowship Program at the Foreign Agricultural Service, focusingon the coun- tries of the former Soviet Union. In 1996, a temp job assignment to AFSA introduced Ed to his future employer and colleagues. 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