Deborah Jones
Awarded for her work in Uzbekistan, “maintaining educational cultural ties and staff morale in an openly hostile climate.”
Lois Roth Award
Victoria Sloan
In recognition of her work in Kazakhstan, with “significant contributions to educational and cultural diplomacy while leading and mentoring American and national colleagues.”
Jean Manes
In recognition of her work in Montevideo. Manes also participated in a broadcast on the Lois Roth Award on the Voice of America Spanish.
Orna Blum
Orna Blum was award Lois Roth Award (Honorable Mention) for work with marginalized communities in Jamaica.
Georgia Hubert
In recognition of her excellence in carrying out the merging of the US Information Service into the State Department her USIA-State merger and training State officers to take over the simple grant-making activities formerly carried out by USIA.
Marjorie Ransom
In recognition of the contributions as a Foreign Service Officer of one of the Award’s original designers, who first met Lois in 1967 in Tehran.
Mary Lou Edmondson
In recognition of her work as a mainstay in the New York press center of the US Information Agency
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Mary Carlin Yates
The award citation reads: For outstanding creativity, initiative and sensitivity in directing and managing USIS programs in Zaire from 1993 to 1995. Her achievement in reaching out to newly-formed political groups and the Zairian intellectual community restored the U.S. as a leading force for justice and will form the basis of American-Zairian relations in coming
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Harriet Elam
In recognition of her work while Cultural Attache in Athens (1983-1987) and for her mentorship of younger officers.
Nan Bell
The first winner of the Lois Roth Award, Nan Bell was nominated by her entire staff at the European Branch of the International Visitor program for her work during a period of explosive growth in programs following the fall of the Berlin wall.