Ms. McKelvey joined the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration in 1983 and was the Director of the Office of African Refugee Assistance from 1986 to 1993 when it was reorganized to be the International Refugee Assistance Office for Africa, the Americas, and (East) Asia. A further reorganization in September 1998 created the Office of Refugee Assistance and Migration for Africa and Asia (East and South). That nine-person office develops U.S. Government bi- and multi-lateral policy toward refugees and conflict victims, as well as other migrants, across the African continent and throughout the South and East Asia and Pacific regions. It administers an annual assistance program budget of over $200 million. Her career in international humanitarian assistance also includes six years with the Agency for International Development's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance. She holds an M.A. degree in international relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a B.A. degree from Duke University. Her African experience began with a two-year assignment to the Peace Corps in Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast).