What’s Your Story? The Museum of the Peace Corps Experience and the Peace Corps Oral History Project Want to Help You Tell It.
Bring your Peace Corps experience to a wider world. The Museum of the Peace Corps Experience seeks to preserve Peace Corps stories and objects donated by Volunteers: museumofthepeacecorpsexperience.org The Peace Corps Oral History project has trained interviewers ready to capture your story....
Peace Corps Introduces an Ethical Storytelling Toolkit
A video and workbook to help Volunteers — and those who served years ago — think about storytelling. That includes intercultural dialogue and awareness of whose voices are at the center of a story. By NPCA Staff Image courtesy Peace Corps...
Dear Editor: Why Peace Corps Matters
Here’s what the Peace Corps community in one state has to say about it. Some lessons and inspiration from New Mexico. By Jonathan Pearson As National Peace Corps Association worked with members of the Peace Corps community to celebrate...
Peace Corps ‘Jeopardy!’
Four recent contestants — and one champion By NPCA Staff Geographer Charles Fogelman. Photo courtesy “Jeopardy!” Here’s your clue: This University of Illinois geographer served with the Peace Corps in Lesotho 2003–05, once hosted Queen ‘Masenate Mohato Seeiso for dinner...
Peanut Flour, Peace Corps, and the President
In 1967, Jack Allison wrote and recorded a song that went on to be the No. 1 hit in Malawi for two years running. Then the president kicked him out of the country. 45 RPM: “Ufa Wa Mtedza (The...
He Started Out Selling Soap. And Went On to Found the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
Good Business The Talk, Fight, Win Way to Change the World By Bill Novelli Johns Hopkins University Press Reviewed by Steven Boyd Saum Bill Novelli’s career includes serving as CEO of AARP, founding the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids,...
In Memoriam – April 2022
As we mourn the loss of members of the Peace Corps community, we celebrate the lives they led with a commitment to service. By Molly O’Brien and Tiffany James Our tributes include Dennis “DJ” Crawley-Smith (pictured), the creator and founding president of Lost&Found —...
Fixing Loan Forgiveness for Returned Peace Corps Volunteers
Rep. John Garamendi joined Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen in sending a letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona asking for returned Volunteers to be included in Public Service Loan Forgiveness Reforms. By Jonathan Pearson In early March 2022, CNN...
For “Hardball” Host Chris Matthews, a Life in Politics Began with the Nixon-Kennedy Battle in 1960
This Country My Life in Politics and History By Chris Matthews Simon & Schuster Reviewed by Steven Boyd Saum “I suppose everyone has a moment that wins them over to a lifelong enthusiasm,” Chris Matthews writes early on in This Country....
An Audience with the King
For 30 years Ambika Joshee worked for the Peace Corps in Nepal. His memoir, The Life of a Nepali Village Boy, is a candid account of a country being transformed — and traces a personal quest for knowledge, justice, and understanding. Here is...