SPIA Student Affairs welcomes Vallera Gibson to UGA. Gibson is a career Foreign Service officer with 15 years of government service. She began as a Management Career Track Officer and has previously served as a Vice Consul and Economic Officer in Haiti (2008-2010), Public Diplomacy Officer in Conakry, Guinea (2010-2012) and Management Officer in Brazzaville, Congo (2013-2015). She began her professional career as an Army officer and worked in the pharmaceutical industry before joining the U.S. State Department. Come and learn more about the different careers at the U.S. Department of State, the Foreign Service Exam, life as a FSO and get your questions about the foreign service answered.