Todd Miyahira became the Director of the Office of American Spaces in 2024. He joined the Foreign Service in 2005, and most recently served as the Country Cultural Affairs officer at the U.S. Embassy in Brasilia, Brazil. His previous assignments abroad have been in Portugal, Bolivia, the Netherlands, and Honduras. He has also served in various positions in Washington, including as a Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs and as a Duty Officer in the White House Situation Room. Todd has a BS from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service and a MA from National Defense University’s College of International Security Affairs.  He is a native of New Jersey and is married with three children.

Kit Bartels is the Deputy Director of the Office of American Spaces. She served previously in various roles in ECA from 2014-2019, including as Branch Chief for the Fulbright Program’s Middle East & North Africa portfolio (2016-2019), Chief of Staff to former Assistant Secretary Evan Ryan (2015-2016), and Deputy Director of the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board (2014-2015). Most recently, Kit served as Team Lead and Director of Outreach for Programs and Policy in the Bureau of Diplomatic Security’s Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC), one of the Department’s largest public-private partnerships. During her 20+ years in civil service in the Department of State, she has also managed programs for the Middle East Partnership Initiative in the Near Eastern Affairs (NEA) Bureau and worked as a regional NEA threat analyst for Diplomatic Security. Kit started her career as an officer in the U.S. Air Force and has a master’s degree in Near Eastern Studies from the University of Arizona and a BA in Linguistics from Miami University (Ohio).