Cover Story
WORLD TRAVELERS
TOGETHER IN FOREIGN
STORY BY DALE LONG
SERVICE Andrew and Megan (Greenwell) Byrley have traveled
far since they first trod the boards—and fell in love— on the stage of Rose-Hulman’s Hatfield Hall Theater. The 2009 mechanical engineering alumni have been part of America’s Foreign Service diplomatic corps for nearly eight years—Andrew as a security engineer, consular officer and economic officer; Megan as an engineer and facility manager. These assignments have taken them from Washington, D.C., to U.S. embassies in the
Megan and Andrew Byrley (both ME, 2009) have lived throughout Africa and Central America as part of America’s Foreign Service diplomatic corps.
capital cities within some of the world’s most exotic countries: Senegal on Africa’s Atlantic coast (20122014), Central America’s Belize (2014-2016) and Mauritania, on the African western coast (since 2017). Andrew has assisted U.S. citizens who have encountered problems while traveling overseas, and now works with American companies looking to do business in Mauritania. Along the way, he has reached out to help local citizens address community needs. Megan uses her engineering and problem-solving skills to provide technical, project management and customer service support for the daily operations of the U.S. embassy headquarters. As an economic officer, Andrew Byrley (middle) helps citizens address community needs.
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Andrew became interested in foreign service when he stopped by a Department of State information booth at a career fair while completing his master’s degree in robotics and automation engineering at Georgia