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, a position she has held since September 2021. She has served previously in various roles in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), including with the Fulbright Program and with the ECA Front Office. During her 20+ years of civil service in the Department of State, Kit has developed a broad array of experience in the Department, holding past positions in the Bureaus of Diplomatic Security, Counterterrorism, and Near Eastern Affairs. Kit started her government career as a military officer in the United States Air Force, serving in Turkey and Saudi Arabia in support of Operations Northern and Southern Watch.  She has a master’s degree in Near Eastern Studies from the University of Arizona and a BA in Linguistics from Miami University (Ohio).