Soribel Feliz

Soribel Feliz

2019 Ricardo Salinas Scholar, Ricardo Salinas Scholarship

Soribel Feliz is a Foreign Service Officer for the U.S. Department of State.

Soribel Feliz is a Foreign Service Officer for the U.S. Department of State. She is originally from New York City, but DC is her second home. She has served her country in two overseas posts: first in Bucharest, Romania where she worked as an Economic Officer and in Sao Paulo, Brazil where she was a Consular Officer. She currently works as a program analyst for the Comptroller’s office of the Consular Affairs Bureau at State Department. In the spring of 2011, she had the privilege of interning in Capitol Hill, at the House Foreign Affairs Committee while taking graduate-level courses in Political Management at the George Washington University. Shortly after, she won the Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship, which allowed her to attend graduate school at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School, where she earned two Master’s degrees, in Public Administration and Economics. Selected to participate in Aspen Ideas Festival session 2.