Diplomat in Residence – NY Metro
(NJ, NY)
Tours: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (Consular Officer); The Hague, Netherlands (Economic Officer); Kabul, Afghanistan (Deputy Director of Counternarcotics Unit); U.S. Mission to the United Nations, NY (ECOSOC Advisor); Tel Aviv, Israel (Deputy Economic Counselor); Eagleburger Fellow (Citi)
Career Track: Political
Years of Service: 16
Prior Experience: Before I joined the Foreign Service, I was a campaign manager in California; an English teacher in Japan;and a grad student through a Fellowship funded by the U.S. Department of State. The Thomas R. Pickering Fellowship brings talented young people from underrepresented groups into the field of U.S. foreign policy and paved the way for me to serve my countryas a U.S. diplomat.
Education: BA in Communications and Political Science from University of California, Los Angeles and a Masters in International Relations from Yale University
Interesting Experience: One of the most interesting aspects of the Foreign Service is the number and variety of experiences you will have no matter what position you work in. From liaising with all of the Major League Baseball teams at their Dominican Republic training camps to launching an internet freedom initiative with the Secretary of State in the Netherlands to working with numerous Ministers and Governors to discuss economic opportunities and alternate livelihoods in Afghanistan to negotiating the development financing document for the sustainable development goals and standing up for human rights at the United Nations to participating in a negotiations program with Israelis and Palestinians in Israel, I have had a chance to have an exciting and interesting career. There is nothing like a career in the Foreign Service if you are looking for varied and interesting experiences.
Last Post: Deputy Economic Counselor, Tel Aviv, Israel
Why I Chose a Foreign Service Career: Since college, I had been interested in a career in public service, but had never realized the Foreign Service was an option until I went to a talk given by a Diplomat in Residence at my university and I studied abroad my junior year.Those two experiences planted the seed for my desire to combine my interest to work in public service with my interest in working and living overseas, leading me to pursue a career with the Foreign Service.