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Brooke Dean is a Foreign Service Officer currently serving as the Nonimmigrant Visa Chief at the U.S. Consulate Hong Kong. She specializes in consular work; she has previously been posted to China, Singapore, Thailand, and the Philippines, and has trained newly hired officers in the Consular Training Division at the Foreign Service Institute in Virginia. She graduated from Brigham Young University with a bachelors degree in International Studies in 2004 and from George Washington University with a masters degree in Asian Studies in 2008. Prior to the Foreign Service, she worked for three years for a defense contractor in Washington DC as a Chinese-language research analyst. She is married and has three children ages 7, 11, and 13.