Careers with the Department of State
1 - 2 p.m. Wednesday, April 28
GCC-B
RSVP Monday, April 26, 5 p.m.

If a career with the State Department is of interest, stop by and meet Edward Kulakowski to listen and to talk. The info session will leave a lot of room for discussion and questions.

Ed is a Senior Foreign Service Officer with the Department of State, and most recently was Counselor for Press and Culture at the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw, Poland, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the U.S.-Polish Fulbright Commission. He previously served as Cultural Attaché in Moscow, Russia; Public Affairs Officer in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; America House Director in Yerevan, Armenia; and with the U.S. Information Agency’s (USIA) Voice of America and Exhibits Service in Washington D.C. Mr. Kulakowski initially was recruited by USIA from Honolulu to serve on an American exhibition in the Soviet Union in 1978.  He received BA and MA degrees from the University of Hawaii and studied as an exchange student at Leningrad State University in 1973-74.

Mr. Kulakowski’s duties as Diplomat-in-Residence at UCLA include counseling students on State Department internship and career opportunities, with a particular focus on the Foreign Service; and engaging university and public audiences on State Department careers and issues of American diplomacy and public diplomacy in the countries and regions he has been involved with professionally.