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Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations Energy Manager, Jenna Faupel, being presented with this year’s award for Excellence in Individual Sustainability Leadership in the Domestic U.S. Direct Hires category by Under Secretary John Bass and OBO Director William Moser. (State Department photo)

U.S. Department of State

The Lessons of 1989: Freedom and Our Future