- What We Do
- Our History
- Regional Public Engagement Specialists
- Office of American Spaces Leadership
Representing the Office of American Spaces are the Regional Public Engagement Specialists — a corps of about 30 U.S. Foreign Service specialists stationed in strategic locations around the world. Possessing a wide range of programming, management and training skills, these specialists link American Spaces, embassies and consulates with the broad set of expertise in Washington and provide direct guidance to American Spaces. They also assist the embassies and American Spaces in navigating the processes involved with building or redesigning American Spaces.
Effective October 2020
Africa (AF)
Home Post: Accra
REPS: Alison McKee
Portfolio: Benin, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Togo
Home Post: Dakar
REPS: Rose Jackson
Portfolio: Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Chad, The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal
Home Post: Kigali
REPS: Elizabeth Stromme
Portfolio: Burundi, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda, Zambia
Home Post: Nairobi
REPS: Donna Wiss
Portfolio: Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania
Home Post: Pretoria
REPS: Ana Ayala de Barbosa
Portfolio: Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
East Asia and Pacific (EAP)
Home Post: Beijing
REPS: Rita Botts
Portfolio: China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Taiwan
Home Post: Hanoi
REPS: Paula Kitendaugh
Portfolio: Cambodia, Laos, Singapore, Vietnam
Home Post: Jakarta
REPS: Scott Hartmann
Portfolio: Australia, Brunei, Fiji, Indonesia, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Timor-Leste, Tonga
Home Post: Rangoon
REPS: Marcy Carrel
Portfolio: Burma, Thailand
Europe (EUR)
Home Post: Belgrade
REPS: Carla Higgins
Portfolio: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia
Home Post: Kyiv
REPS: Matthew Underwood
Portfolio: Moldova, Ukraine
Home Post: Riga
REPS: Stacia Clifton
Portfolio: Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia
Home Post: Rome
REPS: Sheila Weir (REPS based in Washington, D.C.)
Portfolio: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Spain, Turkey
Home Post: Vienna
REPS: Magia Krause
Portfolio: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, The Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Near East and North Africa (NEA)
Home Post: Amman
REPS: Fenghua Wang
Portfolio: Bahrain, Iraq, Israel, Jerusalem, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Home Post: Cairo
REPS: Heather Ward
Portfolio: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia
South and Central Asia (SCA)
Home Post: Almaty
REPS: Tracci Gabel
Portfolio: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Home Post: Islamabad
REPS: Sarah Ziebell
Home Post: New Delhi
REPS: Mark Burrell
Portfolio: FSI, Washington, D.C.
Western Hemisphere (WHA)
Home Post: Bogota
REPS: Malore Brown
Portfolio: Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela
Home Post: Brasilia
REPS: Laura Kaspari Hohmann
Portfolio: Brazil, Paraguay
Home Post: Buenos Aires
REPS: Elenita Tapawan
Portfolio: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Uruguay
Home Post: Mexico City
REPS: Cathy Marsicek
Portfolio: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama
Office of American Spaces (WASHDC)
Home Post: FSI
REPS: Cynthia Nichols
Portfolio: FSI
Home Post: Washington, D.C.
REPS: Carol Brey
Portfolio: Office of American Spaces
Notes: Director of Office of American Spaces
Home Post: Washington, D.C.
REPS: Valorie Lee
Portfolio: Office of American Spaces
Notes: Field Support Officer covering EUR