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'''Title: June Carter Perry U.S. Ambassador, Retired

June Carter Perry served as U.S. Ambassador to Lesotho (2004-2007) and to Sierra Leone (2007-2009). She had previously served as Deputy Chief of Mission in the Central African Republic and in Madagascar. In Washington, she was Director of the Office of Humanitarian Affairs in the Bureau of International Organizations, with responsibility for United Nations Commissions on the Status of Women and Human Rights as well as ECOSOC and the Office of Refugee Affairs. Other assignments included the National War College's Capstone Program for which she received a Certificate; desk officer in the Office of Southern African Affairs for Lesotho, Swaziland and Botswana and later for Zimbabwe. Following her assignment as Special Assistant to Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger, she served at the U.S. Embassy in Paris as First Secretary and as Embassy Narcotics Coordinator. While in the Office of Southern African Affairs, she initiated a bursaries program for South African students during the apartheid era in collaboration with USAID and non profit organizations such as Africare. A graduate of the State Department's Senior Seminar, she served as Diplomat in Residence at Howard University and received the 2002 Diplomat in Residence Award from the Department of State. A graduate of Mundelein College which merged with Loyola University Chicago, she received her bachelor's degree cum laude in History and as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow completed her graduate work in Early Modern and Renaissance History at the University of Chicago in 1967. She was the recipient of the Outstanding Alumna Award from Mundelein (1982) and the Coffey Award from Loyola in 2007. Following receipt of her Master's Degree, she became an Instructor at A and T University in Greensboro, North Carolina as part of the Wilson Program and The National Teaching Fellows Program. She received a faculty fellowship in Middle Eastern Studies at Hamline University, St. Paul Minnesota the summer of 1968. Following her marriage that same year to Frederick Perry, former Director of Economic Development in Micronesia, she taught at the Hopwood High School, now known as Marianas High. Upon her return in 1969 to Washington, she became a Lecturer in African-American History in the undergraduate school of the University of Maryland and director of a graduate seminar in Renaissance Reformation HistoryCorps Country Director and Deputy Director. Prior to her work with the government, June Carter Perry was Director of Public Affairs at WGMS/RKO Radio Corporation in the metropolitan Washington area and producer/host of several programs including "Soul of the Classics," "Dialogue" and the RKo syndicated "Heritage" series until 1977 when she joined the Carter Administration as Special Assistant to the Agency Director for Public Affairs. Following that appointment, she became Director of Public Affairs for the Peace Corps Washington Headquarters and subsequently Acting Communications Director for the ACTION Agency incorporating Peace Corps and VISTA. She earned the ACTION Agency's highest award for her service before entering the Foreign Service in January 1983. She remained with the State Department until her retirement in January 2010 and received Superior Honor Awards and the President's Meritorious Award. Following her retirement, she became the Cyrus Vance Visiting Professor in International Relations at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts (2011-2012) and was a featured speaker at several universities including the University of South Carolina's Law Schools' Rule of Law Division; the Harry S Truman School of Public Affairs at the University of Columbia and the University of Utah Law School. She also served as chair of several Pickering Fellow selection panels sponsored by the State Department and administered by Princeton University as well as serving on the Georgetown University Masters in Public Service oral examination panel and that University's Colloquium on Diplomacy and Human Rights with the former Canadian Ambassador to the United States and a representative of the National Endowment for Democracy in 2016. From 2014=2017, she was President, Senior Seminar Alumni Association; Chair, Federal City Public Service Foundation (2013-2016); and Board Member, AFRICARE (2013-2016). In October 2016, Ambassador Perry was inducted into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame.

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