WorldView | Fall 2020
Making Our Mark
What Guides Us?
From the Editor: This Time
Eight town halls and a global ideas summit to reimagine the Peace Corps for a changed world. What are the big ideas for the agency, the National Peace Corps Association, and the Peace Corps community going forward?
Views from around the world — and from returned Volunteers across the country who have served over the decades. An overview of the summit and town halls. And answers to how we connect Peace Corps to the uncertain future we’re making.
Introduction by Glenn Blumhorst
Peace Corps Today
Features
African Americans and the Future of the Peace Corps
The West is Burning
Hide Not Your Sorrow
COVID-19: Putting a Face on the ‘Invisible Enemy’
Departments
Peace Corps 60th Anniversary
Peace Corps Viet Nam: Launching in 2022
First Volunteers return to service in January 2021
A First for Puerto Rico
Is virtual volunteering an idea whose time has come?
10,000 Meals: World Central Kitchen and Hurricane Laura
Three Partnerships to Bolster Voting, Democracy, and Service
Story Slammers Wanted
Peace Corps News: Q&A with Senior Advisor Darlene Grant
Each Generation Must Do Its Part
NPCA News: Leaders in Humanitarian Work and Community Service
Advocacy: Virtual District Meetings
Working for a Peace Corps to Which I Can Return
NPCA Affiliate Groups
Gratitude to the Peace Corps Community
In Memoriam
Man of Peace and Justice: John Lewis
In Memoriam: Former Peace Corps Director Joseph Blatchford
Sorrow and Gratitude: Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg
In Memoriam: Walter Carrington
Letters Fall 2020: WorldView Readers Write
Letters Fall 2020: WorldView Readers Write
One more thing.
Where We’re Going
About WorldView
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About the Editor
Steven Boyd Saum is editor of WorldView. For more than two decades he has edited award-winning magazines in the San Francisco Bay Area. His journalism, essays, and fiction have appeared in Orion, The Believer, Creative Nonfiction, The Kenyon Review, Christian Science Monitor, on KQED FM, and in other magazines and newspapers in the U.S. and internationally. He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ukraine, where he also directed the Fulbright program and hosted a radio show. Send a letter to the editor: [email protected].
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