Jill Strachan Partners in Diplomacy

Jill Strachan, In profiling her parents Alan and Evelyn and their postings in Greece, Pakistan, Egypt, Vietnam (unaccompanied), and Sri Lanka, provides an extraordinary peek into USAID careers and family life in the 1950s and 1960s. Jill also describes the disruptions of the McCarthy era, the impact of growing up as a third culture kid, and her memoir “Waterfalls, the Moon and Sensible Shoes: One Lesbian Life.”