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Zimbabwe as a hub of Southern Africa

BOTTOM LINE The US Embassy in Harare has identified the potential for Zimbabwe to become a growth hub for Southern Africa. This is a curious conclusion to draw given the fact that Zimbabwe currently ranks near the bottom of the DHL Global Connectedness Index. The State Department’s Integrated Country Strategy for Zimbabwe neither conceptualizes what it… ....

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Arthur Bertram Cuthbert Walker II: A Space Science Inspiration for Generations

For young Arthur Bertram Cuthbert Walker II (1936–2001), the only love in his future was science. Born in Cleveland, his family relocated to Bronx, NY. It was there that he, with the support of his parents, would begin studying what would direct his future.
Arthur first attended an elementary school of which his mother, Hilda Walker, disapproved. ....

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Ambassador Ruth A. Davis Pioneered Diversity in Foreign Service

UC Berkeley Grad Continues to Bring International Economic Empowerment for Women ....

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The Biden team's State Department diversity challenge

The Biden team s State Department diversity challenge
Abigail Williams and Andrea Mitchell
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WASHINGTON The Biden administration faces a pair of personnel challenges as it looks to rebuild a hollowed-out State Department: promoting new leadership from within the career ranks, and fundamentally reshaping those ranks, which have long lagged other federal agencies in diversity efforts.
One walk down the portrait-lined halls of the State Department and it is easy to see why the culture of U.S. diplomats has long been described as “pale, male and Yale.” White men have overwhelmingly held senior positions through both Republican and Democratic administrations, and the State Department continues to lag far behind other federal agencies when it comes to making progress on diversity. ....

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Can the State Department Bring More Diversity to the U.S. Diplomatic Corps?

Across the State Department, which includes more than twenty-two thousand Foreign Service and Civil Service personnel, the trend lines are more mixed. A 2020 report by the General Accountability Office, a government watchdog agency, found that although the overall proportion of racial or ethnic minorities at the State Department rose from 28 percent to 32 percent between 2002 and 2018, the proportion of Black employees fell from 17 percent to 15 percent.
Black Americans are even less represented at the higher levels of the Foreign Service. “As of March 2020, the Senior Foreign Service was 90 percent white and 69 percent male, with the proportion of African American senior officers below 3 percent,” down from nearly 9 percent in 2008, Uzra S. Zeya and Jon Finer write in a recent CFR Council Special Report [PDF]. Since the rank and title of ambassador was first used by the United States in 1893, only 156 Black individuals have served in ambassadorial posts out of a total of ....

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