Category: PD Fellows

Public Diplomacy Fellow, 2014-2015

Patricia Kabra is a career member of the senior Foreign Service with the rank of minister-counselor and the Public Diplomacy diplomatic fellow at the Institute of Public Diplomacy and Global Communications. Ms. Kabra has over twenty years of diplomatic service in the Middle East and at the Department of State in Washington, DC. She has been posted overseas as a Public Diplomacy Officer in Damascus, Jerusalem, Doha, Tunis and Cairo. In Washington, she served as Deputy Director for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs in the Near Eastern Affairs Bureau at the Department of State. Throughout her career, she has managed strategy for public diplomacy and public affairs, including press activities; strategic messaging; cultural and educational exchanges; projects and grants. Her most recent position before joining IPDGC for the 2014-15 academic year was at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo where she served as the Public Affairs Counselor.

In addition to government service, Dr. Kabra previously taught History, Philosophy, Humanities, Sociology, English, and Islamic Studies to undergraduate students at Woodbury University in Burbank, Calif. and the Los Angeles Community College system.

Patricia Kabra received a Ph.D from the University of California Los Angeles in the History of the Middle East; an M.A. from Pennsylvania State University in the History of the Middle East and Africa; and B.A. from Penn State in Philosophy and Fine Arts. She has received numerous awards over her career, including State Department awards for superior and meritorious service, as well as a civilian Department of Defense award. She speaks fluent Arabic and French. 

Other PD Fellows have been:

2018-2019 Karl Stoltz

2017-2018 Robert Ogburn

2015-2016 Thomas Miller

2013-2014 Jonathan Henick

Public Diplomacy Fellow, 2013-2014

Jonathan Henick is a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Foreign Service who served as IPDGC’s Public Diplomacy Fellow for the 2013-2014 academic year.

Prior to this role, he served as the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary and Director for Press and Public Diplomacy in the Bureau for South and Central Asian Affairs in Washington, DC, where he was responsible for overseeing the public diplomacy and public affairs operations of the Bureau for South and Central Asian Affairs and for providing policy guidance and maangement oversight of over 400 U.S. government employees working at 11 embassies and seven consulates in 13 countries, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India.

Henick also served as the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Timor-Leste, a mission that included four U.S. government agencies and nearly 200 staff. He has also served in Azerbaijan, Turkey, Portugal, and Uzbekistan. He received the 2008 Award for Achievement in Public Diplomacy from the Public Diplomacy Alumni Association and four individual Superior Honor Awards from the State Department.

In his academic career, Henick spent one year as a visiting research fellow and diplomat-in-residence at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. Originally from New York, he speaks Russian, Portuguese, Turkish, and Azerbaijani. He holds a Master’s degree in International Affairs from Columbia University.

Other PD Fellows have been:

2018-2019 Karl Stoltz

2017-2018 Robert Ogburn

2015-2016 Thomas Miller

2014-2015 Patricia Kabra