I serve as an in-house expert and conduct U.S. policy-oriented research and writing.

I managed the U.S.-Eritrea bilateral relationship. I supervised, coordinated, and directed U.S. government personnel and activities in Eritrea. I developed and coached a team of 13 Americans and 225 local national employees to achieve U.S. policy performance objectives. I administered an $8.6 million budget and provided guidance and oversight for Embassy's $12 million renovation project. Accomplishments included:• Maintained high employee morale and productivity during the COVID pandemic and the civil war in neighboring Ethiopia.• Organized three flights that repatriated 112 Americans who had been stranded in Eritrea during the COVID pandemic.• Reported on and analyzed Eritrea's involvement in the Ethiopian conflict. provided insight, advice, and policy options for dealing with Eritrea, including for significant, new economic sanctions imposed in November 2021.• Challenged Eritrean government efforts to distort U.S. policy and spread misinformation through skillful public diplomacy.

I served as the Department's deciding official for disciplinary action and oversaw four GTM offices comprising 190 employees and 65 contractors: workplace flexibilities and employee support, Foreign Service recruitment and onboarding, performance evaluation, and reasonable accommodation. I managed GTM's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts. Accomplishments included:• Developed the Department's first-ever unconscious bias training course and reformed the Special Needs Education allowance. Created an assessment tool that enabled GTM to measure the effectiveness of its DEI efforts and make data-based interventions.• Improved employee accountability by strengthening the Department's discipline program. Envisioned and created the Managers Support Unit that provides guidance, information, and mentoring to supervisors dealing with personnel problems.• Drove cultural change by highlighting resilience, destigmatizing mental health issues, and ensuring employees were aware and encouraged to take advantage of department-sponsored support programs.

I supervised 61 American and 850 local staff and contract employees. I oversaw a 180-acre compound and a $165 million annual operations budget. I made security-based operational decisions daily. Accomplishments included:• Analyzed and monitored the security implications of Shia militias’ expanding security and political roles and Iran’s growing influence in southern Iraq.• Improved and expanded the post’s public outreach, especially through social media, to build support for U.S. policies and counter Iran-sponsored anti-American disinformation.• Promoted U.S. business. Successful advocacy resulted in a $15 million contract with one American company and Basrah Governorate’s payment of a long-standing $15 million debt to another.

I oversaw the five-member U.S. Embassy Tripoli Core Country Team that was evacuated from Libya when Embassy Tripoli suspended operations. Accomplishments included:• Ensured continuity of Embassy Tripoli operations by standing up, resourcing, and leading a remote operations team based in Embassy Valetta.• Established a communications matrix for remotely managing and integrating American staff located outside Malta and local employees in Tripoli. created a network for liaising with and remotely supervising key Embassy Tripoli local staff. developed mechanisms to oversee and protect U.S.-leased property in Tripoli.• Conceived and developed the Tripoli Assistance Coordination plan, a template to coordinate and implement U.S. interagency assistance efforts.

I managed U.S. relations with 11 countries in East Africa. supervised 13 American employees. I led daily interagency collaboration and engagement with Congress, NGOs, and the media. Accomplishments included:• Wrote the U.S. Strategy for Somalia to guide diplomatic, security, and development efforts in Somalia following the resumption of diplomatic relations.• Orchestrated the intensive, whole-of-government U.S. assistance effort to support a free, fair, and credible Kenyan presidential election and avoid a repeat of the destabilizing violence of the previous election.• Coordinated with the U.S. Embassy in Kampala to persuade the Ugandan government to table anti-LGBT legislation.

• Career Development Officer, GTM’s Office of Career Development and Assignments – Washington, DC• Deputy Political Counselor - U.S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq• Deputy Director, Office of Arabian Peninsula Affairs, - Washington, DC• Political Officer - U.S. Embassy Sanaa, Yemen, and U.S. Embassy Damascus, Syria• Rusk Fellow, Georgetown University – Washington, DC• Presidential Management Fellow, U.S. Information Agency – Washington, DC• Peace Corps Volunteer - Morocco