- 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: Lizaimee Steger
Portfolio: Benin; Cameroon; Cote d’Ivoire; Equatorial Guinea; Gabon; Ghana; Liberia; Nigeria; Sierra Leone; Togo
Home Post: Dakar
REPS: Mark Burrell
Portfolio: Burkina Faso; Cabo Verde; Chad; Gambia, The; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Mali; Mauritania; Niger; Senegal
Home Post: Kigali
REPS: Karlene Jennings
Portfolio: Burundi; Central African Republic; the Republic of the Congo; the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Malawi; Rwanda; South Sudan; Uganda; Zambia
Home Post: Nairobi
REPS: Shakaria Buckson
Portfolio: Comoros; Djibouti, Republic of; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Kenya; Madagascar; Mauritius; Seychelles; Somalia; Sudan; Tanzania
Home Post: Pretoria
REPS: Elizabeth Stromme
Portfolio: Angola; Botswana; Eswatini; Lesotho; Mozambique; Namibia; Sao Tome and Principe; South Africa; Zimbabwe
East Asia and Pacific (EAP)
Home Post: Beijing
REPS: Ari Katz
Portfolio: China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Taiwan
Home Post: Hanoi
REPS: Elenita Tapawan
Portfolio: Burma; Cambodia; Laos; Thailand; Vietnam
Home Post: Jakarta
REPS: Marcy Carrel
Portfolio: Indonesia; Malaysia; Philippines; Timor-Leste
Home Post: Suva
REPS: Amy Bell Mulaudzi
Portfolio: Pacific Islands – Fiji; Kiribati; Marshall Islands; Nauru; Papua New Guinea; Samoa; Tonga; Tuvalu
Europe (EUR)
Home Post: Belgrade
REPS: Sarah Ziebell
Portfolio: Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Kosovo; Montenegro; North Macedonia; Slovenia, Serbia
Home Post: Bucharest
REPS: Violeta Talandis
Portfolio: Moldova; Ukraine; Romania
Home Post: Riga
REPS: Amy Smith
Portfolio: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Belarus; Estonia; Georgia; Latvia; Lithuania; Poland; and Russia
Home Post: Rome
REPS: Paula Kitendaugh
Portfolio: Belgium*; Cyprus; Denmark*; Finland*; France*; Germany; Greenland*; Greece; Iceland*; Ireland*; Italy; Luxembourg*; Malta*; Netherlands*; Norway*; Portugal; Spain; Sweden*; Switzerland*; Turkey; and the UK*
Home Post: Vienna
REPS: Laura Hohmann
Portfolio: Austria; Czech Republic; Hungary; Slovakia
* Indicates countries with no American Spaces
Near East and North Africa (NEA)
Home Post: Amman
REPS: Stacia Clifton
Portfolio: Bahrain; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Kuwait; Lebanon; Oman; Office of Palestinian Affairs; 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: Miquela Burke
Portfolio: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
Home Post: Islamabad
REPS: Cynthia Nichols
Portfolio: Afghanistan; Pakistan
Western Hemisphere (WHA)
Home Post: Panama City
REPS: Malore Brown
Portfolio: Antigua and Barbuda; the Bahamas; Barbados; Colombia; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Ecuador; Guyana; Haiti; Jamaica; Panama; Suriname; Trinidad and Tobago; Venezuela
Home Post: Brasilia
REPS: Sylvie Young
Portfolio: Brazil; Paraguay
Home Post: Buenos Aires
REPS: Rebecca Ernest
Portfolio: Argentina; Bolivia; Chile; Peru; Uruguay
Home Post: Mexico City
REPS: Sheila Weir
Portfolio: Costa Rica; Cuba; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Mexico; Nicaragua; Belize
Office of American Spaces (WASHDC)
Home Post: Washington, D.C.
REPS: Magia Krause
Portfolio: Senior REPS Advisor
Home Post: Washington, D.C.
REPS: Cathy Marsicek
Portfolio: Division Chief, Field Support
Home Post: Washington, D.C.
REPS: Rita Botts
Portfolio: Chief Program Strategist
Home Post: Washington, D.C.
REPS: Hannah Fitter
Portfolio: Special Projects