Dear AAFSW community members, I am very honored and thankful to AAFSW’s board of directors and distinguished members for their trust and vote of confidence. I am looking forward to collaborating closely with my counterparts and reaching out to AAFSW’s external partners in the broader foreign affairs community. We have a common goal of strengthening our…
It wasn’t until about a month after arriving in Serbia and completing a Royal Compound tour that Mikell even realized Serbia had a royal family. After a tour of the Royal Palace and learning about a number of charitable endeavors the Royal Family of Serbia was involved in, Mikell reached out to the Crown Princess…
by Celine Castel, AAFSW President His Excellency Marek Magierowski, the Polish Ambassador to the United States, shared in-depth insights into the United States special relationship with Poland, in response to the current conflict in Ukraine and the forced migration affecting the people of Poland.The Associates of the American Foreign Service Worldwide (AAFSW) successfully launched the…
1. The best Halloween ever by Barbara Robinson The Herdmans plus Halloween have always spelled disaster Every Halloween, the six Herdman kids steal candy, spray-paint other kids, and take everything that isn’t nailed down. And this year promises to be the same, until the Mayor decides to up and cancel Halloween. True, that means there’d…
Every Service Matters: Volunteering During the Pandemic Zinat A. Kemper was nominated for 2022 SOSA award from the Africa Bureau for her dedicated work supporting her community in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania during the pandemic. There were eight nominations in the AF Bureau (the most of any bureau), and at least four, including Zinat’s, were…
1. Home, Land, Security: Deradicalization and the Journey Back from Extremism by Carla Power What are the roots of radicalism? Journalist Carla Power came to this question well before the January 6, 2021, attack in Washington, D.C., turned our country’s attention to the problem of domestic radicalization. Her entry point was a different wave of radical…
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