Marieme Foote joined National Peace Corps Association in August 2020 and serves as the Advocacy and Administrative Associate as well as Community Outreach Specialist, helping to launch an outreach campaign as well as working on advocacy-related issues. She is a COVID19 evacuated Volunteer who served in Peace Corps Benin beginning September 2018, until the global evacuation in March 2020. In Benin she served as a sustainable agricultural systems agent and worked alongside men and women’s groups to address issues concerning food security and agriculture.
After returning from the Peace Corps she became heavily involved in advocacy work on behalf of evacuated Volunteers, and worked with Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security (WCAPS), a nonprofit organization, to gather data and create a report to advocate for better support for evacuated Volunteers. She studied at Ithaca College and earned a B.A in political science with a minor in environmental studies.