Press Releases 2007

US Embassy Announces Appointment of New Public Affairs Officer

The United States Embassy in Kingston is pleased to announce the appointment of Patricia Attkisson as its new Public Affairs Officer and Spokesperson. Mrs. Attkisson arrived in Jamaica in June.

Her most recent previous diplomatic post was in Oslo, Norway, from March 2005 to March 2007 as Assistant and then Public Affairs Officer. Immediately previous to that, she was Public Diplomacy Desk Officer in the State Department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs responsible for press and cultural matters in eight Baltic and Scandinavian countries.

During her career, Mrs. Attkisson has served in Port Louis, Mauritius, Montreal, Canada and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. In the Department of State, she has also held positions as Program Officer in the Bureau of International Information Programs, Executive Assistant and Researcher in the Bosnia History Project, and Press Assistant in the Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs.

Mrs. Attkisson graduated from Trinity College, Washington DC, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature. She speaks Norwegian, French and Spanish.