Ambassador Barbara Stephenson will speak about shared musical experience in diplomacy, and music as the best vehicle for cultural identity and communal experience by Flora Junhua Deng on August 6, 2018 share Diplomats are by definition “strangers in the strange land,” according to Ambassador Barbara Stephenson, president of the American Foreign Service Association. “That’s always been our lives,” Stephenson said, “ ... figuring out ‘How do we