Robin Yeager joined the Foreign Service in September, 1993.  At the time she worked for the United States Information Agency, joining the U.S. Department of State when USIA was combined with the department in 1999. 

Robin’s overseas assignments have included tours in Austria, Germany, Romania, Zambia, Mali and Samoa. She has been a cultural center director, coordinated educational and cultural programs, and served as section head in Mali, and deputy in Zambia.  She has served as embassy spokeswoman and press coordinator.

Washington assignments have included tours as a country affairs officer in the Africa Bureau, with responsibility for public diplomacy programming on HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa, an assignment in the department’s Foreign Service Institute where she developed and coordinated public diplomacy training for both American staff and Foreign Service national staff, an assignment as writer/editor of the department’s flagship publication for foreign audiences, e-Journal USA, and an assignment as the Bureau of International Information Programs’ East Asia/Pacific Office policy officer.

She has received Meritorious Honor, Sustained Superior Service, and Outstanding Adjunct Faculty awards.

Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Robin served on the faculty of Rutgers University in New Jersey.  She worked with off-campus youth and adult audiences on leadership and communication, intercultural communication, community development and youth development. She worked with her department’s state-wide youth exchange programs, and collaborated on projects with the National 4-H Council, particularly on youth-at-risk and international programs. Prior to joining Rutgers, Robin worked extensively with the American Red Cross, including service on the Board of Governors’ National Advisory Committee on Youth. With Red Cross she also coordinated international exchange programs, developed educational materials, and worked with the press.

Robin has bachelor and masters degrees in Human Development and Learning from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her graduate program included a semester internship working with the North Carolina Governor’s Office of Citizen Affairs.

Robin, who grew up in cities throughout the United States, now calls Bowie,  Maryland home.

August 2008