Автор: Barbara Frechette

Barbara Frechette has a bachelor’s degree in journalism with a major in English literature from Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington and advanced studies in economics and journalism from American University and the University of Maryland. When she was a technical writer she married Myles Frechette and accompanied him in his 35-year Foreign Service career. She was editor of the American Foreign Service Women’s Newsletter and published an article about the role of the Foreign Service spouse in the American Foreign Service Journal. While in Colombia, her article about women leaders was published in Semana, the nation’s leading newsmagazine. In 1999, the profiles in Sharing Power were published in Colombia as El Poder Compartido. Now retired from the Foreign Service, she and her husband live in Bethesda, Maryland near their two children and five grandchildren to whom this book is dedicated.