An Online Reference Guide to African American History
Quintard Taylor
Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Professor of American History
University of Washington, Seattle
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Pamela Spratlen, a native of Columbus, Ohio, graduated from Wellesley College with an A. B. degree in psychology in 1976. After graduation, she worked for nearly a decade in California with various public-service oriented organizations, including Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) in Los Angeles, California. She graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1981 with a master’s degree in public policy and then worked as an aide for the California Legislature’s Joint Legislative Budget and Assembly Ways and Means Committees. She left California in 1990 to join the U.S. Department of State. Spratlen served in U.S. diplomatic posts in Guatemala, Washington and Paris before taking an assignment in Moscow, Russia from 2000 to 2002. Spratlen assumed the role of Vladivostok Consul General from 2002-2004 and reported on many of the same issues that fascinated Greener, including U.S. business prospects and Chinese migration. Spratlen continues to serve in State Department posts in Washington, D.C. |
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