Former Ambassador Christopher LandauChristopher Landau is an American lawyer and diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Mexico from 2019 to 2021. In that position, he presided over the largest American diplomatic mission in the world and fostered unprecedented bilateral cooperation that yielded results including the ratification and entry into force of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Free Trade Agreement, protection of border commerce and regional supply chains during the pandemic, and the lowest levels of illegal migration in years. He also promoted cultural and educational links, and his innovative public diplomacy outreach garnered him more ...

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Mayor Monserrat Caballero RamírezMonserrat Caballero was born in the city of Oaxaca de Juárez, from which her mother and siblings later migrated to Tijuana, when she was two years old, being the third daughter of her six siblings. She graduated with a law degree from the Center for Technical and Higher Education (Cetys) Campus Tijuana, a career that culminated while working in the Attorney General's Office of the State of Baja California (PGJE), today the Prosecutor's Office, in the criminalistics area of his field. She also worked in the Organic Unit of Intentional Homicides, as an assistant in the Public Ministry, and later in expert services ...

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Hon. Elizabeth Naa Kwatsoe Tawiah SackeyHon. Elizabeth Naa Kwatsoe Tawiah Sackey is the current Chief Executive of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA). She is an economist and a politician. Career Path Prior to her appointment as the first female Chief Executive of the AMA, Hon Elizabeth Sackey served as the Deputy Minister for the Greater Accra Region in the first term of His Excellency President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s government from 2017 to 2020. Between 2005 and 2017 she represented the people of Okaikwei North Constituency as their Member of Parliament (MP) where she served on the Employment, State Enterprises and Social Welfare, ...

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Mayor Linda GortonLinda Gorton, the longest continuously serving member of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council, is serving her first term as Lexington Mayor. Mayor Gorton was elected on November 6, 2018, winning 63% of the vote. A native of Ohio, Mayor Gorton has lived in Lexington most of her adult life. In addition to her 16 years on the Council, including 4 years as Vice Mayor, Mayor Gorton has been a dedicated volunteer in our community. Throughout the pandemic Mayor Gorton has focused her administration on three goals: keeping Lexington citizens safe by following state and CDC guidelines; continuing to provide basic services to citizens; ...

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Kimberly A. BassettKimberly A. Bassett was appointed to serve as the Secretary of the District of Columbia by Mayor Muriel Bowser on December 11, 2018. In her role as the Secretary, she is the custodian of the Seal of the District of Columbia and manages the City’s ceremonial services; government document publishing and issuances; notary commissions and authentications; international and diplomatic activities; and public records and archive maintenance. Ms. Bassett was the former Director of the Mayor's Office on Women’s Policy and Initiatives (MOWPI) during Mayor Muriel Bowser’s first term. In this role, she served as the Bowser Administrati...

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Eugene JohnsonBorn in 1963, Eugene Johnson spent most of her formative years in Arcadia in the Northern Areas of Gqeberha. In 1980 she left Arcadia High School, and over the next 40 years she completed an impressive stint in both local and national government and also the private sector. She entered politics as a NAAWU shop steward at the tender age of 17 years and just three years later, Johnson was elected as a national executive member of NAAWU, becoming the first female deputy president responsible for gender at NUMSA. Her tenure in South African national unionism would span over a decade. In 1994, Johnson was employed at Auto Plastics. Over the ...

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Jane Carpenter-RockDr. Jane Carpenter-Rock is the Director of Orientation at the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute. Prior to this role, she was Deputy Director of the National Museum of American Diplomacy from 2018 to 2021. She has been a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State for nineteen years. Specializing in Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, Jane has served domestically and overseas, including postings at the U.S. Mission in South Africa and the U.S. Mission in Colombia. Jane has a B.A. from William & Mary (‘92), M.A. from Howard University (‘95), and a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of ...

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H.E. Ambassador Teddy TaylorHe is an international consultant and lecturer on talent acquisition, development, leadership, organizational development and foreign affairs. During his 40-year Foreign Service career, Teddy worked in Central America, Europe, the Caribbean, the South Pacific and Africa. He concurrently served as U.S. Ambassador to the Republics of Papua New Guinea, Solomon Island and Vanuatu (2009-2012). Other assignments of note include: Consul General, Cape Town, South Africa, Diplomat in Residence at Howard University and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Resources. In the latter assignment, Ambassador Taylor ...

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Sherry Zalika SykesService with the U.S. Department of State currently serving as Senior Advisor on Africa in the office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate. She has held diplomatic assignments in Nigeria, Ethiopia (also covering Djibouti and Eritrea), and Mozambique, and has twice served in South Africa, including as Principal Officer and Consul General in Durban. She has served in Washington D.C in the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs leading U.S. representation to ocean pollution conventions, in combatting wildlife trafficking, and as Deputy Director of the Office of Conservation and Water. Prior to ...

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Dr. Earnestine Thomas-RobertsonTogether with the support of the Los Angeles-Lusaka Sister City Committee (LALSCC), Dr. Earnestine Thomas-Robertson has hosted Zambian Ambassadors to the United States and the United Nations, Zambian Governors, Mayors, and First Ladies of the Republic since 1988. The latest being former First Lady, Mrs. Esther Lungu, who came to Los Angeles to formally accept the donation of 3 Fire Trucks sponsored by the LALSCC, the Los Angeles Fire Department, the Los Angeles City and County Stentorians. Examples of other programs the Committee has organized under her leadership includes: a student exchange program, donation of ...

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