WorldView Magazine: WorldView
An Octopus Never Forgets
A handcrafted lure reveals how culture, story, and sustenance intertwine.
The Idea That Wouldn’t Die
How the Peace Corps survived shifts in geopolitics, the whims of presidents, massive global health crises, and even blowback from the RPCV community for 65 years.
Hard Corps
In the decades since Peace Corps’ founding in 1961, its success has sparked a movement of service-based organizations, many of which have incorporated the word ‘corps’ into their name. The word “corps” itself has long carried associations of shared mission, discipline, and collective identity.
The Advocate
When I graduated from college, I briefly considered joining Peace Corps. After some reflection, my decision was clear: “Spend two years living remotely in a foreign country? Absolutely not!” I could never have imagined that seven years later I would be on a tiny island in the Federated States of Micronesia starting service. Similarly, in 2003, when I was hired to help rebuild the advocacy program at the National Peace Corps Association (NPCA), it would have been hard for me to foresee that I’d close out my career running NPCA’s advocacy efforts more than twenty years later, in 2026, having...
When Caucasian Doesn’t Mean White
What a group of Georgian teenagers taught a Detroit-raised Volunteer about race, hierarchy, and the long shadow of Russian domination.
Peace Corps Returns to Syunik
After a six-year absence, Peace Corps volunteers are returning to Syunik, a sign of growing confidence in the Armenia-Azerbaijan peace process and renewed U.S. engagement in the South Caucasus.
WorldView Guide to Book Publishing
The WorldView Guide to Book Publishing, produced by the National Peace Corps Association, is an in-depth multimedia experience to help RPCVs and others explore the pursuit of writing, from memoirs to fiction, travelogues to poetry.
Kinder-Resilient
VAVA'U, TONGA — The village of Tu'anuku ushered in a new era for early childhood education in early February, celebrating the soft opening of a brand-new, resilient kindergarten facility.
Podcast: The Sound of Soft Power
Inside Christopher Wurst’s effort to preserve the human stories behind U.S. foreign aid and American soft power in his new podcast Soft Power/Full Stories, which features multiple episodes highlighting the work of RPCVs.
Champions of the Golden Valley
Champions of the Golden Valley is a heart-warming new documentary produced by RPCV Baktash Ahadi that follows Alishah Farhang, a skier who, after failing to qualify for the Olympics as Afghanistan's first winter Olympian, returns home to start a ski club in his mountain village.
