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@StateDept Appoints Cherrie Daniels as Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues

October 16, 2019 By in Appointments, FSOs, Special Envoys and Reps, State Department, Top Ranks Tags: , ,

 

Via state.gov:

Cherrie Daniels serves as Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs.  A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, she joined the Department of State in 1993. 
 
Prior to assuming duties as Special Envoy, she served as the Director of the Executive Secretariat Staff in the Office of the Secretary of State, Political Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade, and Political/Economic Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Oslo.  She also served in the Office of the Vice President as Special Advisor for Europe and Russia and as a Pearson Foreign Affairs Fellow in the office of Senator Joseph Lieberman. 
 
Earlier in her career, Ms. Daniels served as the Director of the U.S. Embassy’s American Center in Jerusalem, Desk Officer for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Vice Consul in Zagreb and Toronto, as well as two tours in the Operations Center — one as Coordinator of the Crisis Management and Support team and one as a Senior Watch Officer. 
 
Ms. Daniels has earned numerous individual and group Superior Honor awards.  In 2006, she was presented with the Secretary of State’s Swanee Hunt Award for Advancing Women’s Role in Policy Formulation in recognition of her work to promote the participation of women as peacemakers in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 
 
Hailing from Richardson, Texas, Ms. Daniels earned a B.A. in Politics from Princeton University, where she was also an FCC-licensed radio DJ.  She later earned a Master of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.   She speaks Serbian, Norwegian, and Hebrew and is married with two children. 

New AFSA Governing Board (2019-2021 )Takes Office

August 7, 2019 By in Ambassadors, Foreign Service, FS Groups, State Department, USAID Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

 

New AFSA Governing Board (2019-2021). Photo by AFSA/Twitter

The 2019-2021 American Foreign Service Association Governing Board took office on July 15. It will serve a two-year term (Also see 2019-2021 AFSA Governing Board Election Results). Below via AFSA:

Incoming President Ambassador Eric Rubin comes to AFSA from his posting as Ambassador to Bulgaria, where he served from three years. He was previously deputy chief of mission in Moscow, deputy assistant secretary of State for European and Eurasian affairs, consul general in Chiang Mai, executive assistant to the under secretary of State for political affairs and Rusk Fellow at Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy.

Foreign Service Officer Thomas Yazdgerdi, AFSA’s new Vice President of the Department of State constituency, is a 28-year veteran of the State Department. Yazdgerdi is finishing his tenure as Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, but has also served in Kabul, Kirkuk, Baghdad, Pristina, Panama, Bratislava, Tirana and Athens, as well as Director of the Office of South Central European Affairs.

John K. Naland returns as Vice President for the retiree constituency. He has held numerous positions on AFSA’s board, including State Vice President and AFSA President.

Foreign Service Officers Jason Singer, Jay Carreiro and Michael Riedel will serve as Vice Presidents of the USAID, Foreign Commercial Service and Foreign Agricultural Service constituencies, respectively.

Completing AFSA’s leadership team, retired senior FSO Virginia L. Bennett will serve as Treasurer and Kenneth Kero-Mentz will serve as the organization’s Secretary.

Complete bios for AFSA’s elected leadership, including all officers and constituency representatives, can be found on the AFSA website.

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2019-2021 AFSA Governing Board Election Results

June 26, 2019 By in Elections, Foreign Service, FS Groups Tags: , , , , , ,

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On June 17, AFSA announced the results of the 2019-2021 AFSA Governing Board elections and Bylaw Amendments. A total of 3,291 valid ballots were received (2,420 online and 871 paper). According to AFSA, this represents 20% of the eligible voting membership.  The new Governing Board will take office on Monday, July 15, 2019.

The following AFSA members have been elected (winning candidates are in bold):

President

Secretary

Treasurer

State Vice President

USAID Vice President

  • Jason Singer (27 votes/write-in candidate)

FCS Vice President

  • Jay Carreiro (52 votes)

FAS Vice President

  • To be determined when all write-in votes are processed.

Retiree Vice President

  • John K. Naland (862 votes)
  • Hon. John O’Keefe * (502 votes)

State Representative (6 positions)

  • Kristin Roberts * (1,285 votes)
  • Lillian Wahl-Tuco * (1,246 votes)
  • Holly Kirking Loomis * (1,196 votes)
  • Tamir Waser * (1,168 votes)
  • Joshua C. Archibald * (1,123 votes)
  • Matthew Dolbow (869 votes)
  • Don Jacobson * (764 votes)

USAID Representative

  • To be determined when all write-in votes are processed.

Alternate FCS Representative

  • To be determined when all write-in votes are processed.

Alternate FAS Representative

  • To be determined when all write-in votes are processed.

APHIS Representative

  • To be determined when all write-in votes are processed.

USAGM Representative

  • Steven L. Herman (1 vote)

Retiree Representative (2 positions)

  • Mary Daly * (916 votes)
  • Philip A. Shull * (827 votes)
  • Hilary Olsin-Windecker (508 votes)