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English: Department of State’s Global Health Initiative Liaison Officer Tsehaynesh Abebe comments to National CARES Mentoring Movement founder and Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, Essence magazine, Susan Taylor, about USAID and other State opportunities that have possible benefit to the organization, while Taylor was attending meeting at the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Energy for a cross-departmental discussion, in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, February 28, 2012. This not-for-profit organization is dedicated to recruiting and connecting mentors with local youth-serving and mentoring organizations to help guide under-resourced children to academic and social success across the country. This discussion provides a continuation of the White House Policy in Action conference that took place in November. The focus of the discussion was about how existing federal programs and Administration priorities can be leveraged with her organization, especially as it relates to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) literacy, education and rural youth. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.