- 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.
Africa (AF)
Home Post: Accra
REPS: Michelle Cloud
Portfolio: Benin, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Togo
Home Post: Dakar
REPS: Mark Burrell
Portfolio: Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Chad, The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal
Home Post: Kigali
REPS: Elizabeth Falcon
Portfolio: Burundi, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda, Zambia
Home Post: Nairobi
REPS: Marcy Carrel
Portfolio: Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania
Home Post: Pretoria
REPS: Elizabeth Stromme
Portfolio: Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
East Asia and Pacific (EAP)
Home Post: Beijing
REPS: Catherine Marsicek
Portfolio: China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Taiwan
Home Post: Hanoi
REPS: Elenita Tapawan
Portfolio: Cambodia, Laos, Singapore, Vietnam
Home Post: Jakarta
REPS: Alison McKee
Portfolio: Australia, Brunei, Fiji, Indonesia, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Timor-Leste, Tonga
Home Post: Rangoon – moving to Suva
REPS: Vacant
Portfolio: Pacific Islands
Europe (EUR)
Home Post: Belgrade
REPS: Sarah Ziebell
Portfolio: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia
Home Post: Kyiv
REPS: Cynthia Nichols
Portfolio: Ukraine, Moldova
Home Post: Riga
REPS: Ana Ayala de Barbosa
Portfolio: Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia
Home Post: Rome
REPS: Sheila Weir
Portfolio: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Spain, Turkey
Home Post: Vienna
REPS: Laura Hohmann
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: Sacha Fraiture
Portfolio: Bahrain, Iraq, Israel, Jerusalem, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Home Post: Cairo
REPS: Donna Wiss
Portfolio: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia
South and Central Asia (SCA)
Home Post: New Delhi
REPS: Kathleen Fox
Portfolio: Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka
Home Post: Almaty
REPS: Rebecca Ernest
Portfolio: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Home Post: Islamabad
REPS: Paula Kitendaugh
Portfolio: Afghanistan, Pakistan
Western Hemisphere (WHA)
Home Post: Bogota
REPS: Fenghua Wang
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: Rita Botts (covering)
Portfolio: Brazil, Paraguay
Home Post: Buenos Aires
REPS: Rita Botts
Portfolio: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Uruguay
Home Post: Mexico City
REPS: Malore Brown
Portfolio: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama
Office of American Spaces (WASHDC)
Home Post: Washington, D.C.
REPS: Magia Krause
Portfolio: Senior REPS Advisor
Home Post: Washington, D.C.
REPS: Stacia Clifton
Portfolio: Division Chief, Field Support
Home Post: Washington, D.C.
REPS: Karlene Jennings
Portfolio: Chief Program Strategist