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Partners in Diplomacy

Partners in Diplomacy

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 The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (ADST) and the Una Chapman Cox Foundation bring you "Partners in Diplomacy," a podcast series exploring the service, sacrifice, and adventure of life as a Foreign Service family member”. This initiative collects, produces, and publishes oral histories of spouses and partners working in the U.S. foreign affairs community. This project is designed to raise awareness of the important contributions Foreign Service spouses make to U.S. diplomacy and to our country.Cool Ben Political Science Politics & Government
Episodes
  • Jill Strachan

    Jill Strachan
    Oct 6 2022

    Jill Strachan, In profiling her parents Alan and Evelyn and their postings in Greece, Pakistan, Egypt, Vietnam (unaccompanied), and Sri Lanka, provides an extraordinary peek into USAID careers and family life in the 1950s and 1960s. Jill also describes the disruptions of the McCarthy era, the impact of growing up as a third culture kid, and her memoir “Waterfalls, the Moon and Sensible Shoes: One Lesbian Life.”
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    40 mins
  • Karl Deringer

    Karl Deringer
    Jul 7 2022

    As spouse to a US diplomat, Karl Deringer adapted his skills when living in different places, and has worked as a nurse, humanitarian and community organizer in Africa, massage therapist, embassy CLO, dance instructor, and stock trader. 
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    29 mins
  • Mette Beecroft

    Mette Beecroft
    May 11 2022

    Mette Beecroft is a pioneer and tireless advocate for improving the lives of Foreign Service families through her efforts to launch the Family Liaison Office (FLO) at the State Department in 1978 and her work as a CLO (Community Liaison Officer) at various embassies. Hear about her 50-year service to the U.S. diplomatic community and the history of the FLO. 
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    37 mins
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