David Seminara

David Seminara has been writing and blogging about immigration for CIS since 2008. He was a tenured member of the U.S. Foreign Service from 2002-2007. He served as a consular officer in Skopje, Macedonia, from 2002-2004; Port of Spain, Trinidad, from 2004-2005; and Budapest, Hungary, from 2006-2007. Mr. Seminara has a B.A. in Management/International Business from Villanova University and is currently a freelance writer based in Bend, Oregon. His work has appeared in many publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Magazine, Boston Globe Magazine, BBC and others. He is the author of Bed, Breakfast and Drunken Threats: Dispatches from the Margins of Europe.