WorldView Magazine: community achievements
Reading Room: RPCV Book Clubs
For many, book clubs have become a doorway back to service, a place where returned Volunteers can feel the same spark of curiosity that once led them across oceans.
The Most Peace Corps Family You’ve Never Heard Of
When Michael Kirwin looks back on his life, he traces its turning point to a single decision he made as a young man in the late 1960s. What he didn’t realize when he stepped out of a plane in Brazil in 1967 was that he was stepping into a whole new belief system. One that would shape not just his life but also the lives of his siblings, children, nephews, nieces, and now his grandchildren.
Madame Presidents
Meet the new presidents of the Poetry Foundation and the YMCA of the USA. For the first time at both of these venerable institutions, there’s a woman at the helm. Michelle Boone President of the Poetry Foundation CHAD | 1994–96 Photo courtesy the Poetry Foundation Named in April as the new president of the Poetry Foundation, Michelle Boone is the first woman of color to lead the storied Chicago-based institution, which publishes the century-old journal Poetry, one of the most prominent literary journals in the United States. Along with her Peace Corps service, Boone brings over 20 years of...
