Trumbull College Tea: "From the Frontlines of 21st-Century Diplomacy" with World Fellow Sara Cohen

A career diplomat, Sara Cohen is the Deputy Ambassador (Foreign Policy and National Security) at the Embassy of Canada to the United States in Washington, D.C. As part of the Embassy’s senior executive leadership team, Sara oversees programs dealing with foreign and defense policy, energy and environment, public safety, border security, immigration, intelligence liaison and law enforcement.

Other assignments at headquarters include two years deployed to the Privy Council Office in the Foreign and Defense Policy Secretariat, responsible for Latin America and the Caribbean. She has also served abroad as the Head of the Political Section at the Canadian Embassy in Bogota, Colombia (2009-2012), and was Head of the Political Section at the Canadian Embassy in Santiago, Chile (2014-2016). Fluently trilingual (English, French, Spanish), she holds a Master’s degree from University College London and a BA from McGill University.