Words and Deeds, May 2020
A letter to readers from the new editor of WorldView amid unprecedented times.
By Steven Boyd Saum
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Climate Change in the Pacific
Islands in Peril
Climate change and Pacific nations trying to save themselves.
By Mike Tidwell
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On the Front Lines
Fiji and Beyond: a MacArthur Fellow takes stock of climate change loss and damage — and immediate solutions. By Stacy Jupiter
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Writ on Water
Tonga: Lessons and memories, hopes and fears.
By Siotame Drew Havea
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Dengue Fever Blues
The Marshall Islands: Climate change and healthcare.
By Jack Niedenthal
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Day Begins Here
Kiribati: Land is tied to identity. But the land is vanishing.
By Michael Roman
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Full Circle
In the wake of a devastating natural disaster, Returned Peace Corps Volunteers mobilized. And the nonprofit Friends of Tonga was formed.
By Michael Hassett
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Earth, Wind, and Firing the Imagination
Tilting with Windmills
RPCV Michael Skelly’s grand vision to build a massive power pipeline for clean energy.
By Russell Gold
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Earth Day at 50
RPCV Bryce Hamilton helped launch the whole endeavor.
By Kate Schachter
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Peace Corps in the American Conversation
The documentary “A Towering Task” tells a story more urgent than ever — and opens in theaters in May.
By Alana DeJoseph
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The Magazine. Generosity. A New Generation.
An Editorial Giant
After more than 20 years, we bid farewell to David Arnold and welcome WorldView’s new editor, Steven Saum.
By Glenn Blumhorst
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Shaping Three Worlds
How WorldView pieces together our experiences — history and reflections from longtime editor David Arnold
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Gold in Peace
A conversation with Kenneth Syring about Peace Corps in Mongolia and work as a crime scene investigator with the San Francisco PD.
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40 Under 40
A new generation of RPCV leaders.
By William Burriss
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Gallery
Flashback 1984: Travels in China
A photo gallery from U.S. Counsel in Wuhan Jamie Fouss
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Global News. Peace Corps’ Independence. Teachers. Letters.
China Farewell and Other Developments In the Peace Corps Community
Updates on all that is happening for the Peace Corps Community as of Spring 2020
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Keep Peace Corps Independent
A Senate bill would make Peace Corps part of the State Department. Ten former Peace Corps directors write why that’s a terrible idea.
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World-Class Teachers
Thirty years of connecting Peace Corps Volunteers, educators, and classrooms
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WorldView Readers Write
Your letters: Zambia and micro-finance, required reading, oral histories
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About the Editor
Steven is a native of the Chicago area and has lived on both U.S. coasts and in the South, with a good part of the 1990s spent in Central and Eastern Europe—starting with his Peace Corps service in Ukraine (1994-1996) as an assistant professor at Lesya Ukrainka East European National University. He also hosted a radio show and directed the Fulbright program and other academic exchanges for the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv. He has lived and worked in the Czech Republic, and he serves as a consular officer for the Czech Honorary Consulate General in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. He has served on the board of the Northern California Peace Corps Association, appeared on panels representing returned Volunteers, and regularly serves as an election observer with the OSCE.
Steven studied English and philosophy at Emory University and writing at Johns Hopkins. He speaks Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, German, and some Slovak. He was a three-time champion on Jeopardy! and has it on good authority that hieroglyphics is not a language. You can reach him at steven@peacecorpsconnect.org.
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