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This week’s is Kennedy Carmichael! Kennedy is a junior at Texas Tech University majoring in Honors Sciences & Humanities and Political Science. At TTU, she is Co-President of the Filipino Student Association, a student Mentor, and is a house captain for the Honors College.
Kennedy hopes to attend graduate school after graduation next year and eventually join the Foreign Service on the public diplomacy track. Kennedy is excited to get to learn more about foreign service and diplomacy while working with AAD this fall.
Even as a new cyber bureau has been launched and has an ambassador-at-large to lead it, the Cyber Diplomacy Act has not passed in the Senate, making it difficult for the new bureau to deal with emerging security issues and cyber threats.
"Vladimir Putin pulled a fast one on Joe Biden and the world," writes AAD member and Journalist Robin Wright in a piece exploring Russia's escalation of the war in Ukraine, the US' response, and the UN's inability to take action.
As Brazil's elections near, the leftist presidential front-runner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva holds the lead in opinion polls and is scheduled to meet with the US' Charge d'Affaires Douglas Koneff.
Amb. Raymond Telles was the first Hispanic U.S. Ambassador and the first Mexican-American mayor of a large U.S. city. His daughter Amb. Cynthia Telles followed in his footsteps, becoming U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica in March of this year. Embajada de Estados Unidos en Costa Rica
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Following Washington's seizure of assets from Iranian state bank accounts, Tehran filed a suit at the International Court of Justice which began hearings on Monday. The US will make its opening statements tomorrow.
After being held by the Taliban for over two years, an American hostage was freed as part of a prisoner swap for a Taliban drug lord imprisoned in the US for seventeen years.
AAD member Amb. William Courtney examines the strategies employed by the United States in the past in order to deal with Soviet power and explains how these strategies have impacted current relations with Russia, the invasion of Ukraine, and how some of these strategies are being put to use in today's world.
In this article, AAD member Amb. Gordon Gray explains the current state of American aid to Tunisia and what changes he argues are vital to protecting American interests and democracy itself in the nation.
In the American Diplomat podcast episode "Bananas Was His Business," Hugo Rodriguez, the current Deputy Assistant Secretary for Mexico and Central America, details his experience working for a banana company before he joined the Foreign Service. His work provided him with special insight into how deeply the American economy is integrated with the region.
https://amdipstories.org/bananas-was-his-business/
Despite being two years into President Biden's term, dozens of ambassadors to key countries in Latin American and the Caribbean are not in place. Multiple of President Biden's nominees are waiting on their confirmation but this process is being held in a stalemate by partisan disagreement.
President Biden and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa have plenty to discuss at their meeting at the White House today. But something that is not on the official agenda is the two countries' differences over the invasion of Ukraine.
Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Brian Nichols warns that the US is prepared to strengthen sanctions on the Venezuelan oil industry if talks to address the political and economic crises with the opposition are not renewed.
This week's is Megan Kibogo! Megan is a Senior at Smith College, majoring in International Politics, minoring in Architecture, and studying Italian. We're happy to have Megan join us as she takes part in Smith's DC study away program!
At Smith, Megan is on the board of the International Students Organization, competes on the equestrian team, researches in the Government Department, and works as an office assistant.
Megan's international background and interest in security studies have led to her desire to pursue a career in the Foreign Service as a political officer. She is excited to dip her toes into diplomacy at AAD!
AAD member in govt service and US ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield discusses the Biden administration's priorities for the 77th UN General Assembly in this interview.