Sources

Every profile on this site is drawn from these published sources.

Sources

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• Office of the Historian: Eduardo Aguirre
• Arte Público Press: From Immigrant to Ambassador
• MALA: Baktash Ahadi, Serving the Greater Good
• Clarke Forum, Dickinson College
• ADST oral history: Alexander Akalovsky
• White House archive: When I Was Welcomed as a Refugee
• Department of State: Secretary Albright, naturalization remarks, 1998
• Wikipedia: Rina Amiri
• Carnegie Corporation: Great Immigrants, W. Michael Blumenthal
• Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration: Success Stories
• Department of State: The Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs Celebrates Black History Month
• Department of State: Ellie Cohanim biography
• Jerusalem Post: Ellie Cohanim
• Department of State: Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2009 profile
• Boston Globe: John Gunther Dean obituary
• Wikipedia: John Gunther Dean
• Department of State: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2014 profile
• ShareAmerica (Department of State): Refugees' plight is personal for these diplomats
• Department of State: Alberto M. Fernandez biography
• Department of State: Hispanic Heritage Month 2013 profile
• Wikipedia: Herro Mustafa
• AFSA: 2023 Awards for Exemplary Performance
• Time: Our Explorer of the New World
• Wikipedia: Henry A. Grunwald
• AFSA: Lino Gutiérrez (1951 to 2025)
• Department of State: Thirty Years of the Americans with Disabilities Act (2020)
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• Foreign Service Journal: The DS Melting Pot
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• Rahima Kandahari on LinkedIn: retirement message
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• Office of the Historian: Henry A. Kissinger
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• U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum collections: George W. Landau
• Wikipedia: Hugo Llorens
• American Law Institute: In Memoriam, Andreas F. Lowenfeld
• Insider NJ: Malinowski on his story
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• National Museum of American Diplomacy: From D-Day to the U.S. Foreign Service
• ADST oral history: George F. Muller
• Department of State: Tibor P. Nagy, Ambassador-designate to Ethiopia, 1999
• Wikipedia: Tibor P. Nagy
• National Museum of American Diplomacy: Holocaust Survivor, Ambassador Neumann
• ShareAmerica (Department of State): From Lost Boy to Foreign Service Officer
• Quartz: A former Sudanese Lost Boy is now a U.S. diplomat
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• Foreign Service Journal: Finding My Heroes, Finding Myself
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• Wikipedia: Roman Popadiuk
• Department of State DipNote: From Refugee to Foreign Service
• The Fletcher School: Ideological Homecoming
• Times of Israel: Felix Rohatyn obituary
• Wikipedia: Felix Rohatyn
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• Wikipedia: Richard Schifter
• Wikipedia: Ints M. Siliņš
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• Wikipedia: Sichan Siv
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• Wikipedia: Helmut Sonnenfeldt
• Obituary: José S. Sorzano
• Wikipedia: Herbert Spiro
• Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration: Success Stories
• Department of State: Martina Anna Tkadlec Strong
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• ADST: A Russo-American Diplomat Back in the USSR
• ABC News: Somali American Hamse Warfa joins Biden administration
• National Museum of American Diplomacy: Boa Lee
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