S4 Episode 1 - Interview with Ms. Jennifer Gavito, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Iran, Iraq, and Public Diplomacy at the State Department Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs

The Kurdistan in America podcast is honored to have Ms. Jennifer Gavito as our guest in the first episode of Season Four.

Ms. Gavito is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Iran, Iraq, and Public Diplomacy at the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs. She previously served as the Minister-Counselor for Political Affairs at the US Embassy in London. She has spent most of her Foreign Service career working in and on the Middle East.

The discussion is centered on her role at the Department of State, Erbil-Baghdad relations, the political and security situation in Kurdistan and the rest of Iraq, security issues in the broader region, as well as her personal story and view of the Kurdistan Region.