One of the few African-American women in the State Department's Senior Foreign Service, Harriet Elam-Thomas has traveled around the world, rose from an international business student to an ambassador, and spent almost 40 years as a diplomat.
Now completing a two-year assignment as the ambassador to Senegal, she will soon decide whether to accept another post or retire to a family home in Florida.
During a recent visit to JET Magazine's Washington, D.C., Bureau, she reflected ...