Trust and Leadership with Foreign Service Officer Katharine Beamer

Published October 6, 2022

Katharine Beamer explains how foreign service officers advance American interests. Living abroad, a foreign service officer champions core American values, keeps an eye on the local political climate, and provides information for policy makers to tailor US responses most effectively. Being a foreign service officer requires sacrificing a normal life, but it is a sacrifice that she and her peers willingly take, to honor and represent the American people and their values to the world.

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