Join us for our first in person Global Cafe: Coffee with a Diplomat of this year. We're excited to welcome Diplomat in Residence Ms. Sara Stealy. Ms. Stealy will share information about internships, jobs, and other opportunities with State Department and how you too can pursue a career in this exciting field.
Sara Stealy joined the Foreign Service in 2008 and currently serves as the diplomat in residence for the Central region (ND, SD, NE, KS, IA, MO). Her overseas assignments include public affairs officer in Vilnius, Lithuania (2019-2022); press attaché in Accra, Ghana (2015-2018); consular-political-economic officer in Riga, Latvia (2011-2013); and deputy public affairs officer in Lusaka, Zambia (2008-2010). From 2013-2015 she served in Washington, D.C., as the State Department’s first global new media advisor for Consular Affairs, where she trained consular and public affairs sections on using digital platforms for outreach and crisis communications.
A native of Oskaloosa, Iowa, Sara holds bachelor’s degrees in theatre/speech and communications from Northwestern College of Iowa. She has worked in public relations and sales for two Minor League Baseball teams, as a meeting services manager for a hotel/convention center, and as a marketing manager for a national accounting and consulting firm. Sara was pursuing a master’s degree in international studies with an emphasis on Africa at North Carolina State University when she joined the State Department. She is joined in her Foreign Service adventures by her husband, Dave, and pug, Bess Wallace. Sara speaks Latvian, Lithuanian and French with varying proficiency and is proud to hold several blue ribbons in horseshoe pitching from the Iowa State Fair.