WorldView | Special Anniversary Edition
Fall 2021
The Peace Corps at Sixty
Peace Corps Begins Sending Invitations: Return to Service in 2022
We Can Do It! Again!
From the Editor: Honoring Your Stories
Peace Corps Reauthorization Act Passes Its First Hurdle
Historic Beginnings — and Six Decades of Service
Mark the Moment: September 22, 1961 — the Day that John F. Kennedy Signed the Peace Corps Act
When President John F. Kennedy signed the Peace Corps Act into law, it permanently established the Peace Corps as an independent agency. But forging the legislation and getting it through Congress didn’t happen on their own. We take a look at those beginnings and share some stories few have heard. And we look ahead to what the Peace Corps must become.
A conversation with Bill Josephson, Bill Moyers, Joe Kennedy III, and Marieme Foote
Honoring Those Who Have Served
“I signed onto the Peace Corps Reauthorization Act because we need volunteer service now more than ever to support healthy & resilient communities … #PeaceCorpsNow.”
—Betty McCollum, Member, U.S. House of Representatives
on Twitter on September 22, 2021, marking the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Peace Corps Act. McCollum also circulated a “Dear Colleague” letter in fall 2021 calling for robust Peace Corps funding.
Mirror the Face of Our Nation - The past: The program you may not know about that inspired JFK. The future: How we change what America looks like abroad.
Diversity and Global Credibility
An Inclusive State Department Is a National Security Imperative
Operation Crossroads Africa and the “Progenitors of the Peace Corps”
Don’t Look for Representation, Look for a Systemic Problem Solver
First Comes Belonging
Peace Corps Connect 2021 - Highlights from the 60th-anniversary conference for the Peace Corps community.
Learning History, Not Hate
Evacuation: Service cut short by medical crisis, the draft, and COVID-19
News and Updates
Honors from the Library of Congress for Friends of Tonga
New Documentary: Peace Corps Response to COVID
Global Reentry: Live [Virtual] Career Office Hours Twice a Month
Peace Corps Days of Advocacy 2022: In Person?
People and Ideas
Opinion: Missing from the Conversation About Afghanistan
Donald Lu Is the New Top U.S. Diplomat for South and Central Asia
Climate Change Solutions
Guns and Public Health
Ending Gender-Based Violence: A Briefing with Katrina Fotovat
A More Sustainable Food System
Civic Engagement and Democracy
Recent Awards in Health Equity and Music Education
In Memoriam
William Dennis Grubb: “One of the First and One of the Best”
Jeremy M. Black Was Committed to Nonviolence
Two Remembrances: F. Kingston Berlew and Murray Frank
Letters
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