Leadership Announcement at Peace Corps
Richard Swarttz has been appointed Acting Peace Corps Director by the administration until a permanent Director is nominated by the President, confirmed by the United States Senate, and sworn in for duty. Mr. Swarttz was previously appointed by the White...
Arrest Is Not Rescue — And This Narrative Harms Survivors
By Stephanie Richard, Ukraine (98-00) During human trafficking awareness month, I wanted to write to ask PCVs and RPCVs to think critically about what human trafficking looks like and the contrasting public perspective of it. My name is Stephanie...
New Grad School Programs for RPCVs
Call to Attention By Ty Dávila, Research Contributor at the New Lines Institute Over the last few months, the University of Maine and Michigan State University have launched initiatives benefiting former Peace Corps volunteers who served in any part of the world....
Where Prevention Becomes Personal: An Intern’s Reflection on Peace Corps, HIV Prevention, and the Stories that Endure
By Julia Ngo Peace Corps matters because it operates where public health is most fragile: in communities where trust must be earned, resources are limited, and prevention depends on relationships, not just interventions. Through its partnership with the President’s Emergency...
The Right to Care: Health and Humanity Amid War in Ukraine
By Yana Panfilova & Helen Petrozzola December is Universal Human Rights Month and reminds us that health is not a privilege or a service extended out of goodwill—it is a universal right. Yet in war-torn Ukraine, that right is being...
How Peace Corps and HIV Wove Our Lives Together
By Helen Petrozzola I didn’t know where the Peace Corps would send me — only that it would be somewhere I needed to be. That was the unspoken pact: trust the process, step into the unknown, and give everything you...
From the Peace Corps to the boardroom: Humana CEO Jim Rechtin on listening and leading
By Ty Dávila, Research Contributor at the New Lines Institute The Peace Corps instills values that extend far beyond volunteers' years of service, providing them with a mental framework to tackle life's biggest challenges. This transformative experience continues to shape volunteers long...
Spirit of Service
Insights from RPCVs Briana Nezbah, Dennis Felipe Jr., and Jonathan Clark via Peace Corps Blogs Service is one of the few things that asks something of every American and, in return, gives all of us a deeper “we.” That “we”...
Reimagining National Service: Building a Culture of Civic Commitment
Reimagining National Service: Building a Culture of Civic Commitment By Hayden Johnson, NPCA Communications Intern At this year’s Peace Corps Connect conference, a powerful and forward-looking panel tackled one of the most pressing questions for the service movement today: How...
Peace Corps Iran: A Final Reunion, a Lasting Legacy
Peace Corps Iran Association's FINAL Gathering More than one hundred RPCVs reunited this weekend for the final gathering of the Peace Corps Iran Association at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, D.C. The group will cease to...