Inspiring the Next Generation of Black Diplomats: A Foreign Service Officer's Story of Exchanges and Service

February 25, 2021
Kevin Moss, Istanbul, Turkey

In DipNote, the official blog of the US Department of State, CMES alum Keven Moss (AM '16), a Foreign Service Officer covering human rights and religious freedoms in Istanbul, recounts his early fascination with Arabic language and his journey through Middle Eastern studies, beginning in high school with the State Department's National Security Language Initiative for Youth, continuing at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott, Arizona, the AM program at Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and additional language study in Morocco and Tajikistan. Read Moss's story in DipNote.

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