Board of Directors

Member-elected (current terms ends 2018) – Mid-Atlantic Region

Dominican Republic (1966-1969) Puerto Rico (contractor) 1969-1972 Peru (contractor) 1973 Headquarters Staff 1983-1985, 1991-1997, and 2006-2011

Randy Adams is currently an Adjunct Faculty member in International Development at Virginia International University. He served in the same position at George Washington University in 2013. He is also an Expert Consultant in Evaluation at the United States Agency for International Development in the Africa Bureau and the Vice Chair of the International Association for Community Development.

In July 2011, Adams retired as Chief of the Evaluation Unit, Office of Overseas Program and Training Support (OPATS), U.S. Peace Corps. In this role, he advised field staff in over 70 countries on monitoring and evaluation of development projects. He had been the Small Enterprise Development (SED) Specialist for the Inter-America and Pacific (IAP) Region of Peace Corps 2006-2009.

Adams holds a B.S. in physics from Case Institute of Technology (‘70), an M.A. in sociology (evaluation research) from the Catholic University of America (‘76), and a Ph.D. in sociology (social change) from the Catholic University of America (‘91).

Board-elected (current term ends 2016) Kenya 1971-1973

John Henry Ambrose was born in Memphis, Tennessee.  He attended Hyde Park Elementary and Douglass High Schools.  Hank began his undergraduate education at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.  He holds a B.S. degree in mathematics from the State University of New York, College at Brockport, where he completed the Peace Corps/College Degree Program; an M.S. in mathematical sciences (statistics) from the University of Cincinnati, where he was a teaching assistant; and an M.B.A. from The George Washington University School of Business where he completed the inaugural Executive MBA Program.

Hank is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer after serving 2 ½ years as a lecturer in mathematics at Kenyatta College, Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa.

He began his professional career with AT&T in New York as a staff specialist in the Business Research Division.  Hank has over 36 years’ experience in the telecommunications industry with AT&T, Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, Bell Atlantic, Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, Verizon Washington, DC and Verizon Maryland, having held various assignments of increasing responsibility in business research and state and federal regulatory matters.  He retired as Vice President, State Public Policy, Verizon Maryland and Washington, DC.

Hank is a former lecturer at Temple University and former adjunct professor at Strayer University.

He is a member of the Dean’s Encore Circle Board of Advisors for The George Washington University School of Business and former member of the Advisory Board for the District of Columbia Building Industry Association, the Advisory Board for the D.C. Children’s Trust Fund and the Emory University Alumni Board.

He is an active member of Oak Grove Baptist Church in Sterling, VA where he currently serves as Assistant Treasurer, Secretary-Treasurer of the Deacon Ministry, Sunday School Teacher, Chair of the Constitution Ministry, and member of the Budget Ministry.

Hank is married to Emma Ambrose, and has three sons — John Henry Ambrose Jr., James Hampton Ambrose, and Jared Hawkins Ambrose.

Tony Barclay became Chair of the National Peace Corps Association’s Board of Directors in September 2011, after the 50th Anniversary celebration of the Peace Corps.

Currently, he is Adjunct Professor of Development Practice at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service, where he teaches workshops that build practical management skills for development professionals. For 30 years, he was a senior executive at DAI, an employee-owned international development consulting firm, serving as CEO from 1999 to 2008.  During his tenure, DAI grew from a boutique firm to a global company with annual revenues of $375 million and 2,500 employees working in more than 50 countries.

In 2009, with support from DAI, Tony created the Development Practitioners Forum, an initiative aimed at accelerating the diffusion of knowledge by creating connective tissue among practitioners working in different sectors, geographies, and institutions. The Forum pioneered an interactive online question-and-answer platform used by front-line practitioners in more than 80 countries, which is now managed by students in SIPA’s New Media Task Force.

Honored as Executive of the Year in the October 2008 Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards ceremony, Tony has had a long career as a global development professional. He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in western Kenya in the late 1960s, and returned there for his Ph.D. research in anthropology on the impact of a large-scale sugar project.  After a two-year assignment on a United Nations study of the African sugar industry, he joined DAI’s development consulting staff in 1977. He moved into a senior management role in 1979, as the firm commenced a period of rapid growth; became DAI’s President in 1990; and succeeded the founding CEO in 1999. In January 2009, fulfilling DAI’s internal succession plan, he passed the CEO’s duties to a long-time DAI colleague, James Boomgard.

Tony has been a recognized leader in the foreign assistance community for more than 20 years.  He has testified in Congressional hearings as chair of the International Development Task Force of the Professional Services Council, and served on the executive committee of the PSC’s board for five years. He was a founding board member of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition; is a past President of the Washington Chapter of the Society for International Development; and served for two terms on the board of the Corporate Council on Africa.

Currently, he is chairman of the board of Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., an employee-owned public health research firm; a nonexecutive director of DAI; a member of the National Peace Corps Association’s Advisory Council; a trustee of The Mountain Institute; and an advisory board member of the Development Executive Group (devex.com) and Clean Engines, Inc.

Tony received a BA in History from Yale University in 1967, and an MPhil (1976) and PhD (1977) in Applied Anthropology from Teachers College, Columbia University.

Guatemala 1988-1991

Glenn Blumhorst leads the National Peace Corps Association (NPCA), a national membership organization for individuals influenced by the Peace Corps experience, whose mission is “to connect and champion Peace Corps community members in ‘bringing the world home.’”

Glenn is a senior corporate executive and international development professional with 25 years of worldwide experience including headquarters and overseas management roles. His credentials include non-profit organization leadership and the management of complex programs and initiatives that have built stable and prosperous communities through strengthening human and institutional capital, enhancing local governance and services delivery, increasing access to licit economic opportunities and conserving landscapes in conflictive and disrupted environments.

Glenn launched his career with the Peace Corps, serving as an agriculture extension Volunteer in Guatemala from 1988-91. Working with 18 rural Mayan Indian communities in the central highlands, he helped increase the economic capacity of 650 smallholder families through alternative technologies, production diversification, and resource conservation practices.

Prior to joining the NPCA, Glenn was the Chief of Party and Country Representative for ACDI/VOCA in Colombia, where he provided startup and early implementation leadership for a major USAID-funded program that enhanced the social, economic and political inclusion of ethnic minorities in Colombia. All told, Glenn worked with ACDI/VOCA for 18 years in a variety of leadership and technical roles. In carrying out short-term assignments, he has worked in 28 countries in Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America.

Glenn holds both graduate and undergraduate degrees from the University of Missouri-Columbia: a Master of Public Administration, with an emphasis on International Development Management, and a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture with an emphasis in Agricultural Economics.

When not working, Glenn enjoys photography and flying – his photos have been published in multiple media and he is a licensed private pilot.

Jayne’s professional life has focused on private sector economic development, primarily in Africa. Following her first job as a Peace Corps English teacher in Benin, West Africa, Jayne pursued her passion for global development, working in the international consulting divisions of Coopers & Lybrand and Deloitte & Touche. She was the Africa Region Consulting Director for Deloitte & Touche for 10 years, and was based in Johannesburg, South Africa from 1994 to 1999.

After relocating to California in 1999, Jayne joined the David and Lucile Packard Foundation as a program officer in the Organizational Effectiveness Program. There, she supported grantees of the foundation’s Population Program by recommending and providing capacity building grants. As Co-Chair of the Africa Grantmakers Affinity Group (AGAG), she helped build the group, helping other foundations launch grantmaking in Africa. Jayne also worked as Executive Director for a Silicon Valley nonprofit for five years.

In 2008 Jayne became active with the National Peace Corps Association, first as California Coordinator for the MorePeaceCorps Campaign, advocating for a greatly expanded Peace Corps budget. She marched with the Peace Corps contingent in Barack Obama’s inaugural parade in 2009. Jayne now serves on the Business and Development Committee for the 50th Anniversary Celebrations in Washington DC.

Jayne holds a BA degree in History from Duke University and a MBA from the University of North Carolina. She enjoys swimming, the theatre, reading, and yoga. She is an active community volunteer, serving on several nonprofit boards.

Board-elected (current term ends 2016) Mali 1991-1993

Sandra Bunch is senior director of Learning & Innovation at ACDI/VOCA, a nonprofit international development group that focuses on agricultural development and food security, where she currently leads development of the company’s project learning, communications and information systems.

Prior to joining ACDI/VOCA, Ms. Bunch oversaw public relations and communications at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) (2004-2009), an advocacy and research organization that applies a gender lens to international development. While there, she worked on several global campaigns, including the Nike Foundation’s Girl Effect, the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Initiative and a National Geographic special on child marriage. She also supported several development programs, including The Agriculture-Nutrition Advantage and Parliamentarians for Women’s Health. Prior to that, she worked at Bread for the World Institute (2001-2004), where she managed the research, writing and policy analysis for the organization’s annual publication on global food security and hunger, including the 2003 report, Agriculture in the Global Economy.

Ms. Bunch spent 10 years as a print journalist for several Gannett Co. daily U.S. newspapers and as managing editor at Thompson Publishing Group, where she managed several print and online publications related to U.S. public health and food policy and law.

Ms. Bunch has a master’s degree in Communication, Culture and Technology from Georgetown University, and earned a B.S. in journalism and certificate in African Studies from Northwestern University. She served as an agricultural extension Peace Corp volunteer in a village outside of Segou, Mali.

Patrick Fine brings over 35 years of international development experience to his role as the Chief Executive Officer of FHI 360. Over more than 20 years living in Africa, and through assignments in Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe, Mr. Fine gained a deep appreciation of development challenges and the resilience and resourcefulness of communities confronting them. Mr. Fine’s areas of expertise include integrated development, education, private sector and livelihoods, donor coordination, community development, public–private partnerships and working in conflict and post-conflict settings.

Before joining FHI 360, Mr. Fine served as the Vice President for Compact Operations at the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), where he helped to shape nontraditional approaches to U.S. bilateral assistance through his oversight of large-scale investment partnerships with 24 countries. From 2006 to 2010, he was Senior Vice President of the Global Learning Group at the Academy for Educational Development (AED).

As a career member of the Senior Foreign Service at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Fine served as the Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator in the Africa Bureau and Mission Director in Afghanistan, where he led the rapid expansion of U.S. assistance for reconstruction and development.

Fine has received numerous awards, including the Distinguished Career Service Award from the U.S. Government in 2006. In 2004, the Government of Senegal awarded Fine the Ordre du Mérite for outstanding contributions to education, and in 2011 he received the rank of Commander in the Order of Benin.

Board-elected (current term ends 2017) India 1966-1968

Janet Greig retired as an Agency Field Executive for State Farms Insurance in 2002 but remains active with family, community and church obligations.

Throughout Janet’s professional life in the insurance industry she worked for independent insurance agencies, became a State Farm Insurance agent herself and then moved into a management position with State Farm.

Janet and her husband have continued their connection to the world with regular travel, support for development projects in the “Global South” and deep involvement on the board of One World Children’s Fund, a non-profit group which networks resources to grassroots projects addressing the needs of children and their caregivers around the world.

She and her husband are long-time members of the National Peace Corps Association and of the Northern California Peace Corps Association and became members of NPCA’s Director’s Circle in 2004. Janet was active on the steering committee for MorePeaceCorps, held a successful fundraiser for it in Northern California, and is committed to contributing what she can to the future of a successful, re-invigorated Peace Corps.

Janet graduated from UC Berkeley, before serving in the Peace Corps in India, working with village women in Andhra Pradesh as part of the UN-sponsored Applied Nutrition Program. There she met and married her husband, Wylie. Janet was able to do contract work on site selections for Peace Corps in India before they were assigned to Kabul late in 1968. Their youngest child, Jessica, served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Benin ’97-’99.

Board-elected (current term ends 2018) Headquarters Staff 2012-2015

Griffin is the president and chief executive officer of Global Government and Industry Partners, LLC (2GIP), an advisory services firm specializing in facilitating public, private partnerships, ICT for Development and a range of international development services. Griffin recently held the position of Associate Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Peace Corps, appointed by President Obama as a Senior Foreign Service Officer. In this capacity, Griffin was responsible for developing and executing the agency’s strategy to engage partners to support the thousands of Volunteers in their efforts to bring grassroots development solutions to more than 60 countries around the world. With partnerships with over 200 non-governmental organizations, universities, private sector firms, and other federal agencies, Griffin led a team of practitioners responsible for the development and management of Peace Corps’ partnerships with USAID, Rotary International, National Peace Corps Association, KOICA, Coca Cola, Google, Arizona State University, amongst many others.

Prior to his tenure at the Peace Corps, Mr. Griffin spent 14 plus years at Microsoft Corporation working in various roles and leadership positions, including roles in consulting, operations, and sales. As Director of International Development, Mr. Griffin had responsibility for Microsoft’s strategy for aid, trade and finance agencies, including United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID), Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (PEPFAR), Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), etc. In this role, Mr. Griffin developed innovative public, private partnership models to drive Information, Communications, and Technology (ICT) solutions to developing countries. Mr. Griffin is noted for brokering a first-of-its-kind collaboration between Microsoft, USAID, PEPFAR and the MCC in 2007 that facilitated broader, cross-agency ICT partnerships around the world.

As a passionate development professional, he has served on the board of directors for many international affairs organizations, including the United States Global Leadership Campaign (USGLC), the Society for International Development (SID), Washington DC chapter and ATHGO. He served as a corporate representative to the Business Council for International Understanding (BCIU) and in 2008, Mr. Griffin was appointed by the former USAID Administrator, Henrietta H. Fore, to serve on the Advisory Committee on Foreign Voluntary Aid.

Mr. Griffin is a native of Washington DC, and was named by the Washington Business Journal as one of the region’s top minority business leaders of the year for 2008 and named one of the top 40 international development professionals under 40 by the Devex Group in 2010.

Member-elected (current term ends 2017) – Southern Tier Region Papua New Guinea 1991- 1993

Angela served as a high school English teacher in the US Peace Corps in Papua New Guinea from 1991-1993.  From the South Pacific, she continued teach English as a Second Language in South Korea. She designed the ESL program for Sungshin Women’s University in Seoul and directed the program for 3.5 years. From 1998-1999 Angela was an ESL Instructor for the USIS American Language Center (ALC) in Kathmandu, Nepal. She then helped privatize ALC and became the Assistant Director for the institute.

Angela has been the Director of ESL and Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) at the Tennessee Foreign Language Institute (TFLI) since 1999. At TFLI she and her team developed the ESL and TESL Departments and the Taxi Pro Hospitality and Training Program for Nashville’s taxi drivers. Her most recent initiative is ESL to Go, a program consisting of a mobile classroom bringing quality ESL classes to Nashville’s refugees.

Angela was Chairperson for the Nashville Task Force on Immigrants and Refugees, and an an appointed member of the Mayor’s New Americans Advisory Council. Angela is a co-founder and a member of the board of directors for the TN Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (TNRPCVs).  She serves on the board of directors for the Nashville International Center for Empowerment (NICE) and most recently, the National Peace Corps Association (NPCA); in 2014, Angela was the Chair for Peace Corps Connect, Nashville. Angela earned a M.Ed. in community development from Peabody/Vanderbilt in 2009.

It is a great honor to serve NPCA — it provides me an opportunity to give back to an organization that offers RPCVs so much.  For over twenty years I have worked with multi-ethnic and multicultural individuals and organizations and have been deeply engaged with the communities where I live. Both personally and professionally I strive to achieve the third goal of the Peace Corps in promoting world peace and friendship through collaboration, new initiatives,advocacy & education.

Member-elected (Current term ends 2017) – Asia and the Pacific Region Malaysia 1974-1976

Halfway through graduate school, Marjorie joined the Peace Corps in 1974 and served in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as a TESL advisor. Following Peace Corps, she returned to the US where she worked briefly teaching English to foreign students, and then as a Learning Resources Specialist for an Armenian –English bilingual program. With two other RPCVs, Marjorie helped to start the Boston Area Returned Peace Corps Volunteers in 1977.

Marjorie returned to University of Massachusetts/Amherst to finish a doctoral program in education and start a career in Student Affairs Administration. After UMass/Amherst, she moved to upstate New York for a position as Assistant Dean of Students at Colgate University. While at Colgate, Marjorie was also involved in the local community, serving as the Executive Director of the Madison County Rape Crisis Service.

In 1984, Marjorie moved to Pittsburgh to work at Chatham College (now Chatham University) as the Dean of Students.   In Pittsburgh, she was an active member of the Pittsburgh Area Peace Corps Association, and also served on the Board of Directors of the Pittsburgh Women’s Shelter.

Midlife precipitated a career change, and Marjorie joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1992 as a Public Diplomacy Officer with the US Information Agency (now merged with the Department of State). She has served in our embassies in the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Benin, India, Mauritius, and Malaysia.

Having retired in 2010, she is now involved with volunteer activities at NPCA and AFS, the high school student exchange program. She is also on the Board of the NPCA member group Friends of Malaysia. Travel is still an important priority and in 2014 Marjorie added a cruise to Antarctica to her list of accomplishments. She is pleased to report that she has now been to all 7 continents!

Katie served with the US Peace Corps in Honduras from 2005-2007 working with environmental health and municipal development. After returning to the US, she was awarded a Shriver Peaceworker Fellowship, which allowed her to obtain a Masters degree in Intercultural Communication and Hispanic Studies from University of Maryland Baltimore County. She recently served with Peace Corps Response in Panama from 2015-2016 working to deliver remote medical care and developing a community health worker training program for indigenous communities in the Bocas del Toro region.

For over 10 years, Katie has worked with Baltimore’s Latino community in the fields of health, recreation, education, and community development. She is currently the Program Director and Hispanic Liaison for the Friends of Patterson Park, which protects and advocates for a public urban park by providing free programing and supporting open space initiatives. For the past four years, Katie has served as a commissioner on the Mayor of Baltimore’s Hispanic Commission, where she sits on the health sub-committee.

For many years, Katie has volunteered with Global Citizen Year, interviewing and selecting fellows to participate in a gap year abroad, as well as helping to develop a cross-cultural and re-entry training program. She sits on the Board of Directors of the Baltimore Improv Group (BIG), where she is also a performer, and has sat on the Latino Advisory Board of the Walters Art Museum.

Along with an M.A. in Intercultural Communication, Katie holds a B.S. in Psychology and Spanish from Towson University, where she was a scholar-athlete playing tennis. She is passionate about her work facilitating cross-cultural understanding, volunteerism and the positive role that public parks play in community health and wellness.

Mary Owen is a writer, editor and photographer who has worked in journalism for 15 years. Currently, she is a digital content producer for ABC7 in Chicago. Mary ​​also is a copy editor for the Global Press Journal, which features news stories by women around the world.

Previously, she worked as a metro reporter for the Chicago Tribune and Detroit Free Press, covering primarily crime, courts and politics. Mary left journalism for three years to work in education. She was the Chicago program manager for the national non-profit, the News Literacy Project, which teaches youth about how to be smarter news consumers in the Digital Age.

In Peace Corps, she was an education resource volunteer in the Philippines, working at a rural high school in Lobo, Batangas in Luzon, and also developed professional development trainings for journalism teachers across the island nation. She has been active with the Chicago Area Peace Corps Association for more than 7 years and currently serves as co-vice president. During her tenure with CAPCA, she has spearheaded dozens of fundraisers, social events and community service projects, as well as oversee the organization's social media presence.

Mary was a founding board member of the Stewart House Urban Farm in Gary, Ind., and briefly owned 7 backyard chickens and a pound of vermicomposting worms. She is a Detroit native who graduated from Michigan State University with a B.A. in political science and earned an M.P.A. from Indiana University-Northwest in Gary, Ind.

Member-elected (Current term ends 2018) – Northeast Samoa 1973-1976

Dr. Sue Senecah is an active member of the Northeast New York RPCV Group. She served in (Western) Samoa 1973-76 where she taught English and began a widespread organic garden project that is still active. 

On her return, she taught high school English, led wilderness canoe trips, and developed a diverse professional history. It includes most recently, working 2008-2012 as the Stakeholder Involvement Coordinator in the Coastal Resources Division of the New York’s Department of State. She served as staff to the 9-agency New York Ocean and Great Lakes Ecosystem Conservation Council (www.nyoglecc.org), as the Stakeholder Involvement Coordinator for New York’s Ocean Planning (http://www.dos.ny.gov/opd/programs/offshoreResources), and as New York’s representative on the 5-state Mid-Atlantic Regional Council on the Ocean (www.midatlanticocean.org). These initiatives applied a holistic, Ecosystem-based Management approach to the land and waters of New York’s ocean, tidal Hudson River, and Great Lakes and the communities that depend on them. 

To assist New York with these initiatives, Dr. Senecah went on leave from her 20 year professorship at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science & Forestry (ESF, www.esf.edu) at Syracuse. At ESF, she participated in the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. programs in Environmental Communication and Participatory Processes, and Environmental Policy. She taught environmental policy, collaborative governance, environmental dispute resolution, community skills, campaign strategy, and environmental history. Now retired as professor emerita, she still teaches an annual course in collaborative governance. 

From 1992-2008, and 2012-14, she also served as special assistant for environmental policy for a New York State senator. In that capacity, in addition to full range of legislative tasks, she worked with communities to improve or resolve complex environmental situations. 

Finally, she continues her long practice as a private consultant for public involvement process design, facilitation, mediation, and training as the principal of Groundwork. She has worked with and conducted training internationally as well as with federal and state agencies and communities across the U.S. In all of these roles, she has assisted diverse groups to productively and safely learn from each other, deliberate through tough conversations, and move to action. 

She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in Communication Studies, breaking new ground by bringing an environmental focus to her studies in rhetoric, public policy, campaigns, group dynamics, organizations, mass media, and intercultural communication. She is considered the lead founder of the field of Environmental Communication, is on the practitioner roster of the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution (www.ecr.gov), received an honorary doctorate from the Swedish University in 2012, and is listed in Who’s Who of American Women. She lives in Chatham, NY.

Affiliate Group Network Coordinator (Current term ends 2016) Costa Rica 2006-2008

Maricarmen Smith-Martinez joined the Peace Corps community as a Rural Community Development volunteer in Costa Rica. Serving from 2006-2008, she strengthened community collaboration through training in organizational leadership and financial management. She also worked in youth development, creating educational initiatives to address issues such as girls’ empowerment, drug awareness and prevention, and conflict resolution.

Continuing engagement at home, she served on the board of Atlanta Area Returned Peace Corps Volunteers. Joining initially as part of the 50th Anniversary Committee, she also held the role of vice-president before being elected to serve two terms as president. She is active with the leadership of Friends of Costa Rica and Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of Washington DC. She links experience from both geographic and country of service returned volunteer groups to build resources and connections as Group Leaders Forum Coordinator for NPCA.

At the end of 2013, Maricarmen relocated to the Washington, DC area to join the team at Bixal, an RPCV-owned 8(a) business that creates solutions in communications and technologies, where she supports business development and program management. Currently, Maricarmen applies her expertise in affordable housing and financial education to a Bixal contract with the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which involves the development of a national training and certification exam for housing counselors.

Before joining Bixal, Maricarmen served the Atlanta area as a certified Financial Education Specialist for CredAbility, providing instruction in financial literacy topics such as budget, credit, and housing. Previously, she worked in Family Services for Atlanta Habitat for Humanity, managing the application process for home buyer applicants and supporting families on the journey to home ownership.

Seeking to improve community through direct involvement and contribution, Maricarmen volunteered in various capacities: on the Atlanta Habitat Family Selection Committee after her employment there; as a United Way Community Investment Volunteer; as Finance Chair on the board of New Leaders Council of Atlanta; and on the board of the Atlanta Young Alumni. She has been certified in financial education with the National Foundation for Credit Counseling and as a housing counselor with the Georgia Department of Community Affairs. She earned her bachelor of arts in Spanish and religion from Emory University.

Member-elected (Current term ends 2018) – Europe and North/East Africa Kenya 1982-1983

Linda Stingl currently works as a development consultant for Write On, llc! raising funds for a variety of Detroit non-profits.  Over 15 years, her team has raised over $40 million in grants for the Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries to help Detroit’s homeless men, women and children move toward self-sufficiency. Linda also serves on the Board of PEAR Kenya which works with families in nomadic Kenya to secure food and water systems.

Previously, Linda worked in community development for 10 years organizing businesses to strengthen their communities: in Milwaukee for Northwest Side Community Development Corporation; and in Detroit, for Warren Conner Development Corporation. Results included developing: YouthBuild Milwaukee, an alternative vocational high school, In-Place Industrial Parks, and other service learning and youth enterprise projects. 

Linda decided to join Peace Corps while in a college summer seminar at the United Nations. She served in Kenya from 1982 to 1983 first as headmistress of Gaturi Girls School near Muranga.  Later, she was a teacher at Mwala Girls School near Machakos.

Linda holds a BS in Economics and an MS in Marketing from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.   Linda also graduated from Pratt Institute’s Community and Economic Development Intensive for Practitioners.

Active in her RPCV Kenya group (1982-1984)of 90 teachers, for their 25th reunion, Linda compiled “Somehow an Anthology” – stories from fellow RPCVs.   At Second City Training Center in Detroit, Linda co-wrote and performed in “Seven Knives for Seven Lovers” .

Linda grew up in Milwaukee and now lives in Ann Arbor with her husband Joe Klobucar, their two boys – Casey, 15; Ryan, 12 – and their handsome black lab Reggie, 5. Joe is an environmental consultant to the power industry and has dual residency in Ann Arbor and his cabin on the Taku River in Juneau, Alaska.

Tai has spent 20 years as a social entrepreneur, as founder of social-good companies, Harvard University instructor and international speaker. He is currently the President and Managing Partner of the si3 group, a strategy firm specializing in getting leaders and organizations tangible results. 

Previously, Tai was an instructor at Harvard University, teaching courses on social entrepreneurship and adaptive leadership. He was also a visiting scholar at American, Vanderbilt, and Berkeley. He was the founder of two social enterprises--California WISH (Working In Supporting the Homeless), providing education services to homeless and at-risk youth, and SeaVit, combating vitamin deficiency in South East Asia. 

From 2002-2004 Tai served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Republic of Palau and served as the board president of the Returned Peace Corps Association of Los Angeles. He is the recipient of several national innovation awards, including: Presidential Scholar, Julius E. Babbitt Fellowship, Ash Fellowship in Innovations, and U.S. Military Community Service Award.  Tai completed his doctoral coursework at Harvard University, where he also earned his MPP and EdM degrees, and holds a BA from UCLA. 
 

Board-elected (current term ends 2017) Gabon 1991 – 1993

Joby Taylor is Director of the Shriver Peaceworker Fellows Program, a graduate level service-learning program located at The Shriver Center, University of Maryland Baltimore County. Through this position, Joby has supported RPCVs from over 60 Peace Corps countries of service, advising them as they earn graduate degrees in over a dozen disciplines and engaging them in service leadership positions with over 50 community organizations in the Baltimore region.

Joby is a regular member of the University of Maryland Graduate Faculty with an affiliate faculty appointment in UMBC’s Language, Literacy, & Culture Ph.D. Program where he teaches courses and advises internships and research for doctoral-level students. He also regularly teaches undergraduate seminars in peace studies, service-learning, and other special topics for diverse programs including UMBC’s First Year Seminar program, Humanities Scholars, American Studies, Education, and Sociology Departments. Most recently he joined an interdisciplinary faculty team to lead an International Field Research course based in Switzerland where he developed research themes in environmental sustainability and cultural studies.

His practice of engaged scholarship is rooted in a long history of civic engagement including his own service as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Gabon, Africa, where he led a rural elementary school construction project. Upon returning, he spent several years leading international service experiences for high school youth as a program director for Visions Service Adventures’ in the French West Indies. He led the Shriver Center’s multi-year partnerships with the Corporation for National and Community Service and the Sargent Shriver Peace Institute, and is currently collaborating with a consortium of regional faculty to organize a Baltimore College Peace Network.

Joby’s book,”Metaphors We Serve By,” a collection of essays on the history and future of national service and service-learning, was published in 2008. His most recent publications have included pieces on the Peace Corps and Sargent Shriver for Worldview Magazine, and a book chapter on the history of the civil rights and peace movements in Baltimore in Baltimore ’68: Riots and Rebirth in an American City. He has presented and lectured from local to international settings across diverse topics including service-learning, place-based studies, conceptual metaphor, intercultural and interfaith dialogue, and more.

Joby lives in Baltimore and takes every opportunity to lead students and friends on excursions into the city in hopes that learning about its rich history, and its current challenges and opportunities, will inspire them to pursue lives of social change leadership in its future. He earned his B.A. degree in Philosophy, M.A. in Religious Studies, and his Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies.