Ambassador Prudence Bushnell Selected as 2004 Service to America Medal Recipient

Ambassador Prudence Bushnell, currently the Dean of the Leadership and Management School at the National Foreign Affairs Training Center, has been selected as the 2004 recipient of the prestigious Service to America Career Achievement Medal for her service as Ambassador to Kenya and advocacy for U.S. action in Rwanda.

Ambassador Bushnell has worked on some of the most trying international challenges of the past quarter-century. She guided the U.S. Embassy in Kenya through the 1998 bombings and was a leading voice for the nation in urging a response to the ethnic genocide in Rwanda. Biographic information may be found at: http://www.state.gov/m/dghr/22641.htm.

Ambassador Bushnell will be honored along with seven other award recipients tonight at a dinner and awards ceremony at the East Hall of Union Station in Washington, D.C.

Tonight’s reception and award ceremony is open for media coverage. Members of the media who are interested in covering the event should contact Bethany Hardy at (202) 775-9111. Media should note the following information:

Set-up time for cameras: 5:30 p.m.
Reception: 6:30 p.m.
Awards Ceremony: 7:30 p.m.

Service to America Medals were created in 2002 by the Partnership for Public Service, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization committed to recruiting and retaining excellence in the federal civil service, and the Atlantic Media Company, publisher of The Atlantic Monthly, National Journal, and Government Executive magazines.

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