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Richard Dickerson
alphonsiard@gmail.com

Richard A. Dickerson is former senior director for strategic communications for USAID in Kandahar, Afghanistan. He is an experienced consultant with subject matter expertise in government, politics, communications, international development and business development, and is an army veteran.

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Is lack of diversity a factor in our failure in Afghanistan?
COMMENTARY | April 97, 2012
A black man spends 11 months working for USAID in Afghanistan, sees white men flailing around, and wonders if their lack of diversity and inability to achieve their goals may be related.