Her Fathers' Death: It Just Doesn't Add Up
Why did her diplomat father take his own life? Her mother kept her in the dark. Why? To protect her? From what? Zelda just wants some answers.
29 Apr 202132min
A JFK Assassination Tipster's Demise
Charles Thomas had intel, valuable intel, on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. And to thank him for his efforts to share this intel, he was "selected out" of the Foreign Service, or, fired. This l...
22 Apr 202134min
Diversity Across the Generations at State
Ambassador Jim Gadsen and mid-career officer Paloma Gonzalez share their stories of diversity and inclusion, one a Black man whose career was launched in part by the Civil Rights Movement, the other a...
15 Apr 202152min
Is 757 Years Enough?
It's 5:30am, and Kala Bokelman of the Diplomatic Security Service is one of many staking out a professional photographer named Solano's house on a skinny on a dead-end street in Costa Rica. Together w...
8 Apr 202127min
Smuggling Cubans
Party at Carla's house! Kala Bokelman, diplomatic security special agent, tells of a raid on a house straddling the Costa Rica-Nicaragua border. The goal? To stop coyotes smuggling people from Cuba...
31 Mar 202127min
Combatting Anti-Blackness as a Diplomat of Color
As a diplomat of color, how did the murder of George Floyd inspire Christian Loubeau, Security Council negotiator for the United States mission to the United Nations, to create change at USUN? And, ho...
26 Mar 202135min
Onboarding Online
Andrew Shinn onboards as a new Foreign Service Officer during the pandemic. But what is he onboarding to? There's no place to go, and even State doesn't really know what to do with these newbies. D...
18 Mar 202118min
F.W. de Klerk, Winnie Mandela and Cyril Ramaposa
We all know the importance of Nelson Mandela, but great as he was, he did not work alone. Each of these figures brought their motives and personalities to shape South Africa's transition from aparthei...
11 Mar 202139min
