Gayleatha Beatrice Brown is a United States foreign service officer and ambassador. She has served in several diplomatic posts during her career with the U.S. Department of State including U.S. ambassador to Benin. She is Ambassador designee to Burkina Faso.
President Obama nominated Brown for the ambassadorial post on July 2, 2009. She was confirmed by the by the Senate on August 4, and is awaiting swearing in.
Brown was educated in the Red Jack...
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Gayleatha Beatrice Brown is a United States foreign service officer and ambassador. She has served in several diplomatic posts during her career with the U.S. Department of State including U.S. ambassador to Benin. She is Ambassador designee to Burkina Faso.
President Obama nominated Brown for the ambassadorial post on July 2, 2009. She was confirmed by the by the Senate on August 4, and is awaiting swearing in.
Brown was educated in the Red Jacket Elementary School, Matewan Elementary and High Schools in Mingo County, West Virginia. She graduated from high school at Edison High School in Edison, New Jersey. She has BA and MA honor degrees from Howard University. She conducted post-graduate work in international relations at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University.
Before joining the Department of State, Ambassador Brown was a Special Assistant to the Agency for International Development (USAID) Assistant Administrator for Africa and a...
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