Life Out Loud

Born and raised in New York to a Swiss father and Polish mother, Ed Nef seemed destined for an interntional life. After serving in Germany with the US Army, Ed began his career with the Foreign Service in Dakar, Senegal, in 1960. An onward assginment in Guatemala found Ed building relationships with communist revolutionaries. A dreary tour at a stuffy embassy in Colomia followed, broken up by more exciting assignments to the Peace Corps. In 1976 Ed accepted a Congressional Fellowship on Capitol