The Foreign Service Journal, November 2021

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | NOVEMBER 2021 67 she is the author of two nonfiction works: Working Women for the 21st Century: Fifty Women Reveal Their Pathways to Success and Women of Lebanon Interviews with Champions for Peace . Johnnetta Betsch Cole, a renowned anthropologist and educator, was director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art from 2009 to 2016. She is the only person to have served as president of both Spelman College and Bennett College, two private, historically Black liberal arts schools for women. Do You Dare Eat That? Porfa! Mikki Thompson, Blurb, 2020, $25.25/paperback, 20 pages. For this slender but tasty volume geared to young ones, Foreign Ser- vice Office Management Specialist MikkelaThompson teams up with translator Mariana Vega, a close Peruvian friend, to share her photographs and drawings of various foods she enjoyed during her posting in Lima. Each dish is named in English and Spanish, along with the name and address of the restaurant where she tried it. These range from standard Latin American foods, such as ceviche and papa rellena, to less familiar fare, such as chili ice cream and tiger’s milk. Children will enjoy the excellent illustrations and drawings. ¡Buen provecho! Mikkela V. Thompson, who currently serves in Rome, joined the Foreign Service in 2011 as an office management specialist, and has served in Dhaka, Bogotá, Caracas, Vancouver, Nassau, Port of Spain, Santo Domingo and Lima. A former Foreign Service Journal business manager, she worked for AFSA and the State Department prior to becoming an OMS. She creates books, podcasts and videos about her food and travel adventures. See p. 71 for her latest books on various cuisines. At the suggestion of her FSO (ret.) father, WardThompson, she started her blog, M’s Adventures (madventures.me ) in 2011. Marvelous Activities on the Malecon Mikkela Thompson, Blurb, 2021, $20.21/paperback, 34 pages. OMS Mikkela Thompson again col- laborates with Mariana Vega, this time describing fun activities children might engage in, or watch others do, on the promenade in Lima. These include site-specific pursuits, like enjoying a picnic in Parque Maria Reiche and watching fireworks from the lighthouse, as well as the kind of fun kids have almost anywhere: playing soccer and riding a scooter. The author’s whimsical illustrations only enhance the fun of the book. CiCi, Pocholo, and the Consul Lot K. Wilder (with Leslie Rennolds, illustrator), independently published, 2021, $8/paperback, 20 pages. This charming and beautifully illus- trated book tells the story of CiCi and Pocholo, two scrappy street dogs in Hermosillo. Their precarious exis- tence is suddenly upended by construction of a new American consulate in place of the abandoned building where they’ve been sleeping. Will the construction crew evict the canines? Or will they find a way to keep them around? K. Wilder is the pen name for a State Department Diplomatic Security Service special agent currently assigned to Hermosillo as the site security manager. Her previous overseas assignments include Baghdad, Kampala, San Salvador and Kabul. Domestically, she has served in the Washington field office, St. Louis resident office and the Office of Special Investigations in Rosslyn. Leslie Rennolds is a professional illustrator in Richmond, Virginia.