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WHERE IN THE WORLD...
In this section:
Promoted
Moved On
Retired
Reassigned
In Memoriam
GDA Wins Harvard Award for Innovation in Governance
Agency Sets Goal for Annual Giving Drive
U.S. Food for Peace Director Landis Moves On
Gregory Spirakis Receives Moldovan Government
Award
Call for USAID Memorabilia
Promoted
Robert L. Arellano
Controller
Barbara L. Belding
Supervisory General Development Officer
Louis Alexandre Berg
Democracy Specialist
Nathan J. Blanchet
Public Health Analyst
Ana Bodipo-Memba
Health Science Specialist
Sara E. Borodin
International Cooperation Specialist
Tajuana D. Brown
Secretary
Monique C. Bryant
Lead Contract Specialist
Delisia A. Carpenter
Human Resources Specialist
Mark J. Carrato
International Cooperation Specialist
Sarah Cohen
Program Analyst
Alexandra M. Courtney
Program Analyst
Michael A. Daschbach
Contract Specialist
Victoria Lynn Ellis
Program Specialist
Zina M. Fatemi
Contract Specialist
Barbara A. Feinstein
International Cooperation Specialist
Steven Feldstein
Program Analyst
Chitahka Floore
Contract Specialist
Celeste Fulgham
Supervisory Contracting Officer
Helen Grant Glaze
Program Analyst
Sara F. Gooden
Supervisory Financial Operations Officer
Patricia G. Green
Secretary
William C. Hansen
IDI (Executive Officer)
Laura Marie Harley
Public Health Specialist
Richard L. Ingram
Supervisory ITSPEC
Frederick G. Jones
Auditor
Carol L. Ketrick
Procurement Analyst
Elizabeth L. Martin
Program Analyst
Danielle C. Meyer
Contract Specialist
Terence A. Miller
General Business Specialist
Albert P. Moesle
Contract Specialist
Roman G. Napoli
Program Analyst
Melody Owen Woolford
International Cooperation Specialist
Mei Mei Peng
Education Program Specialist
Timothy Reuter
International Cooperation Specialist
Vann D. Rolfson
Contract Specialist
Joseph Schmidt
Supervisory Contract Specialist
Felicia M. Scott
Management Analyst
Maureen A. Shauket
Contracting Officer
Kevin J. Sturr
Food for Peace Officer
Naima A. Taylor
Supervisory ITSPEC
Trent Thompson
International Cooperation Specialist
Melissa A. Thornhill
Program Analyst
Joann Whitt
ITSPEC (INFOSEC)
Peter A. Wiebler
General Development Officer
Laura K. Wilson
Congressional Liaison Officer
Yvonne M. Wilson
Contract Specialist
Moved On
Michelle A. Aldridge
Michele A. Amatangelo
Christopher Barton
Linda A. Bernstein
Sarah W. Farnsworth
Erin E. Holleran
Anthony M. Mira
Lee D. Roussel
Kimberly Triplett
Tesfayes T. Wyes
Retired
Bruce N. Crandlemire
Ray R. Reddy
Reassigned
Tiffany D. Adams
M/FM/FS to M/CFO/FS
Margaret R. Alexander
REDSO/ESA/Leg to Nepal/D
Syed A. Ali
Pakistan/EXO to India/RFMO
Debra M. Banks
EGAT/WID to ANE/SPO/SPPM
Steven B. Bennett Jr.
OIG/A/PA to RIG/Frankfurt
David E. Billings
COMP/NE/OJT to Afghanistan/OPPD
Christopher Brown
COMP/FSLT to Russia/DHRD
Derrick Brown
Tanzania/D to Mozambique/FM
Robbin E. Burkhart
COMP/FS to M/CFO/FPS
James C. Carlson
COMP/NE/OJT to Armenia/P
Jon M. Chasson
RIG/Budapest to RIG/Frankfurt
Peter B. Cloutier
COMP/NE/OJT to USAID RDM/Asia
Louis Coronado
USAID REP/Yemen to COMP/FS
Robert S. Crabtree
RSC/RFMO to M/CFO/FS
Kim J. Delaney
Peru/OHR to CA/DM
Alicia Dinerstein
Nepal/D to Mozambique/PDM
Jonathan Dworken
PPC/DEI to DCHA/FFP
Amy R. Fawcett
Iraq/OFM to El Salvador/CONT
Stephen J. Gonyea
Macedonia to Afghanistan/OEG
Michael S. Gould
Egypt/PSD to Sri Lanka/D
Gabriel F. Grau
COMP/NE/OJT to Bangladesh/PRO
S. Elaine Grigsby Arnade
COMP/Detail/SUP to COMP/LT TRNG
Robert W. Hanchett
WB/Gaza to EGAT/I&E/E
Angela Hogg
COMP/NE/OJT to Bangladesh/EGFE
Chadwick F. Howard
OIG/I/HQL to OIG/I/LAC-E&E
Mai L. Huang
RIG/Budapest to RIG/Frankfurt
Gweneth Hughes
RIG/Budapest to RIG/Frankfurt
Richard L. Ingram
OIG/M/IM to OIG/M/IT
Cheryl M. Kamin
Malawi/HPN to GH/OHA/IS
Margaret S. Kline
M/OP/HRAM/AFP to M/OAA/DCHA
Akua N. Kwateng Addo
COMP/NE/OJT to Nigeria
Valerie K. Kwok
E&E/ECA to ANE/SAA
David A. Lieberman
Ukraine/PRIV to Bulgaria
Catherine C. Lott
O/S LANG TRNG to Peru/OHR
Leanna L. Marr
COMP/NE/OJT to Guinea/HRD
Allan A. McKenna
M/MPI/MIC to M/CFO/FPS
Mikaela S. Meredith
DROC to COMP/FS
Fatma A. Rose
RIG/Baghdad to RIG/Cairo
Michael S. Satin
COMP/NE/OJT to Nigeria
Palma J. Saunders
AFR/AMS to M/MPPA
Ronald Sergei Senykoff
EGAT/ED/HEW to Iraq/OMD
Leigh Shamblin
Macedonia to COMP/LWOP
Charles Signer
Egypt/FM to RS/Africa/RFMO
Joan M. Silver
PHIL/PRM to COMP/FS
Robert M. Simmons
COMP/FSLT to COMP/FS
Keith C. Smith
RIG/Budapest to RIG/Frankfurt
Carina Stover
PHIL/PHN to Malawi/HPN
John M. Tincoff Jr.
Pakistan/EXO to COMP/FS
Chad Weinberg
DCHA/OFDA/PS to PPC/SPP/SRC
Sandra S. Williams
Malawi/MS to COMP/FS
In Memoriam
Carolyn Jefferson, 55, died Oct. 30 in Nairobi, Kenya.
Jefferson was the senior regional organizational development
advisor for USAID’s Regional Economic Development Services
Office for the past six years.
Penn Kemble, 64, died Oct. 16 in Washington, D.C.
Kemble served as a U.S. envoy to Sudan in 2003. He also was
a deputy director and an acting director of the U.S. Information
Agency, on the Board for International Broadcasting, and a
senior scholar at Freedom House, a pro-democracy think tank.
“In his work with Secretary of State [Colin] Powell regarding
Sudan, and in his years at Freedom House, he was a leading
American voice for the advancement of freedom in the world,”
President George W. Bush said in a statement. “Mr. Kemble
dedicated his life to the struggle for democracy and human
rights, both during the Cold War and after it.”
Edward B. Marks, 94, died Oct. 8 in Mill Valley, Calif.
Only four years after he joined USAID, Marks became the first
recipient of USAID’s Distinguished Career Award in 1976.
He worked in Nigeria, Saigon, London, India, Indonesia, Thailand,
South Korea, the Philippines, and Bangladesh. Marks spent
more than 50 years working on relief, resettlement, and rehabilitation
of refugees of war and politics on four continents with governmental,
nongovernmental, and international agencies. A New York City
native and graduate of Dartmouth College and Columbia University,
Marks began his career as a journalist, and in 1942 joined
the War Relocation Authority, the agency responsible for resettlement
of Japanese Americans who had been forced from their homes
on the west coast by the federal government during World War
II. Later, he joined the U.N. International Refugee Organization
and worked out of Athens. Marks stayed on in Greece with the
International Organization for Migration and, in late 1953,
returned to the United States to open a New York office, which
was needed to help receive more than 100,000 European refugees
preparing to immigrate. In 1958, he become the first executive
director of the U.S. Committee for Refugees, established to
coordinate the efforts of U.S. agencies on behalf of refugees
during the U.N. World Refugee Year. He also served as interim
president of the U.S. Committee for UNICEF in 1985 and was
later on the committee’s board of directors. Marks was
a prolific writer who produced numerous freelance articles
for magazines, including the New Yorker. In retirement, he
wrote a book about U.N. art and poster collections as well
as a memoir. With a grant from the National Endowment for
the Arts, he produced a radio show broadcast in the Boston
area in the 1990s that celebrated the American comic song.
Seymour M. Peyser, 90, died Oct. 14 in Sarasota, Fla.
A graduate of Columbia Law School, Peyser was appointed by
President Kennedy in 1962 as an assistant administrator for
USAID. Later he served as an executive recruiter for the International
Executive Service Corps, a program that he created to match
retired executives with development and enterprise projects
throughout the world. During World War II, Peyser was on the
prosecution staff for the War Crimes trials in Nuremberg.
Afterward, he helped start the giant motion picture company
United Artists, of which he was vice president and general
counsel. A multitalented man, Peyser was also a senior partner
at the law firm Phillips, Nizer, and he taught at Columbia
University Law School, the School of International Affairs,
and New York Law School. He was a member of the Harvard Club
of Sarasota, Sarasota Concert Association, and the Senior
Institute for Lifelong Learning, and supported Habitat for
Humanity.
Theresa Vitulano, 78, a foreign service staff employee,
died Aug. 24 in Williamsburg, Va. She worked for USAID in
Vietnam, Egypt, and Washington. Her last overseas posting
was in Cairo where she worked in communications and records.
Previously, she served with the U.S. Air Force in Weisbaden,
Germany.
GDA Wins Harvard Award for Innovation in Governance
UCAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Harvard University has given
its first Lewis & Clark Award for Innovation in Collaborative
Governance to USAID’s Global Development Alliance (GDA)
for innovative public-private projects.
“Government has woken up to the fact that solving some
of the world’s problems requires a multipartner approach
with private, nonprofit, faith-based, philanthropic, or diaspora
organizations and others,” said GDA Director Dan Runde.
“GDA is USAID’s instrument for bringing to bear
the unique assets, creativity, and reach of these other actors.”
The award by the Weil Program in Collaborative Governance
and the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation—both
located at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School
of Government—recognizes success in collaborative governance
and highlights noteworthy examples for analysis.
Started in 2002, GDA combines the resources and expertise
of the public and private sectors to improve the lives of
people in the developing world. The program links U.S. foreign
assistance with resources from corporations, NGOs, and philanthropies
for development and humanitarian aid.
Stephen Goldsmith, director of the Innovations in American
Government Awards at the Ash Institute, said: “The architects
and implementers of the GDA are fully aware of both the promise
and pitfalls of collaboration with the private sector—and
have very consciously structured this innovation to enhance
the likelihood that significant public value will be created.
We congratulate USAID for improvising—in motion and under
fire—an innovation that we expect will inform scholars,
inspire practitioners, and produce results.”
A luncheon was held Nov. 21 at the Ronald Reagan Building
in Washington, D.C., to celebrate the award.
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Agency employees attended a health fair Nov. 16 in
USAID’s 14th Street lobby to learn about their
options for health benefits from major plan providers
like Kaiser Permanente and Blue Cross/Blue Shield. USAID’s
medical unit also offered free blood pressure checks
during the event. For information about health options,
go to www.opm.gov/insure/health
Pat Adams, USAID |
Agency Sets Goal for Annual Giving Drive
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USAID Counselor Mosina Jordan signs off on a CFC pledge
form to contribute to a favorite charity. The deadline
for Agency employees to contribute to the campaign is
Dec. 31.
Harry Edwards, USAID |
USAID aims to raise $440,000 in this year’s Combined
Federal Campaign (CFC), an annual federal government effort
that asks employees to contribute to charities.
This year’s theme is “Be an Everyday Hero,”
and CFC officials are asking workers to take on that role
by making donations through payroll deductions.
This year’s overall goal in the Washington region is
to raise $56 million. Last year, more than half a million
federal employees in the region surpassed the goal of $54
million by donating some $55.9 million.
Employees at USAID’s Washington headquarters should
have already received the CFC Catalog of Caring, which provides
a brief description of each charity that can receive donations
through this effort.
Completed CFC pledge forms should be returned to a bureau
coordinator. Or employees can peruse the catalog and make
pledges online.
The deadline for making contributions is Dec. 31.
U.S. Food for Peace Director Landis Moves On
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Lauren Landis, left, at a Food for Peace-funded health
project in rural India.
John Hasse
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Lauren Landis, director of the Office of Food For Peace
(FFP) since January 2002, left the Agency last month to pursue
other opportunities.
During Landis’ tenure at FFP, the office developed
new methods to address food insecurity around the world, including
establishing an overseas pre-positioning facility and rewriting
regulations, guidelines, and procedures. In addition, the
office worked to avert famine in Ethiopia, southern Africa,
and Darfur.
When FFP celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2004, congressional,
administration, and U. N. officials testified about the important
role that FFP’s Title II food program played in improving
the lives of people in many countries, including some who
went on to become ambassadors, USAID employees, and parliamentarians.
Landis’ efforts included fashioning the Title II program
to better respond to food assistance needs and emergencies.
Landis is expected to continue working on humanitarian assistance
and development. “Lauren’s many accomplishments
while director of Food for Peace speak to her passion for
improving the lives of poor people around the world. She will
be missed,” said Administrator Andrew S. Natsios.
Gregory Spirakis Receives Moldovan Government Award
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Dr. Gregory James Spirakis poses with World War II
hero Peter Voinov, from Balti, Moldova. Voinov is one
of hundreds of combat-wounded Moldovans that Dr. Spirakis
has fitted with new hearing aids.
USAID/Moldova
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CHISINAU, Moldova—Dr. Gregory James Spirakis,
an audiologist from Florida whom USAID has previously recognized
for his work in healthcare here, received the Civic Merit
medal from Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin Oct. 10.
Dr. Spirakis had arrived in Chisinau a few days earlier,
bearing 215 new hearing aids and supplies valued at $250,000
to be distributed to combat-wounded World War II veterans
through the Hearing Protection Center in Balti, which he cofounded.
Two years ago, Dr. Spirakis received the USAID Outstanding
Citizen Achievement Citation for spearheading a community-based
humanitarian campaign to provide medical services for the
hearing-impaired in Balti, a city of 200,000 about 80 miles
from the capital.
For the past eight years, Dr. Spirakis and his wife, Dr.
Susan Spirakis, have traveled to Moldova to treat children
free of charge. In 2002, they established the state-of-the-art
Hearing Protection Center in Balti—a project for which
they received assistance from USAID, the State Department,
and various NGOs.
The center—Moldova’s first nonprofit, freestanding
audiology clinic—now offers services to newborns, children,
veterans, and the elderly.
Dr. Spirakis has also worked through Sister Cities, an NGO
that links American cities with others abroad, to link Balti
with his hometown, Lakeland, Fla.
Call for USAID Memorabilia
The Agency is asking all current and retired USAID employees
to donate or loan historical items and memorabilia—documents,
photographs, and items marked with USAID’s logo such
as blankets and food containers—relating to the history
of the U.S. foreign aid program. Items dating to before USAID’s
founding in 1961 are welcome, too.
Items can be donated or loaned for display in cabinets in
the refurbished Point Four Conference Room adjacent to the
Administrator’s offices.
Please contact FrontLines@usaid.gov with a description of
the item and details about how it related to USAID programs
before sending anything in.
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