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Alison Krupnick

Midlife Without Borders: From Foreign Service to Finding Home

Ep: 24

August 21, 2025

Duration: 60 min

Alison Krupnick is a writer, former Foreign Service Officer, education advocate, and expat currently living in Portugal. With a career that has spanned international diplomacy, communications, and community organizing, Alison is also the author of Ruminations from the Minivan: Musings from a World Grown Large, Then Small. Her essays have been featured in publications such as the Harvard Review and The New York Times. Alison writes a Substack newsletter and continues to explore life through travel, cooking, and cultural immersion.

What You’ll Learn:

What it means to live through reinvention multiple times in a single lifetime
Insights into the life and responsibilities of a Foreign Service Officer
The emotional weight of approving or denying refugee cases
Navigating multiple cancer diagnoses and how the U.S. healthcare system fails many
The power of empathy, perspective, and rediscovering purpose later in life
What it takes to move abroad and build a meaningful new life
How food became a thread connecting identity, creativity, and joy

Alison Krupnick is a writer, former Foreign Service Officer, education advocate, and expat currently living in Portugal. With a career that has spanned international diplomacy, communications, and community organizing, Alison is also the author of Ruminations from the Minivan: Musings from a World Grown Large, Then Small. Her essays have been featured in publications such as the Harvard Review and The New York Times. Alison writes a Substack newsletter and continues to explore life through travel, cooking, and cultural immersion.

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