WorldView | Spring 2020
Words and Deeds
Climate Change in the Pacific
Islands in Peril
On the Front Lines
Writ on Water
Dengue Fever Blues
Day Begins Here
Full Circle
Earth, Wind, and Firing the Imagination
Tilting with Windmills
Earth Day at Fifty: How it began—and what you can do now
A Towering Task
An Editorial Giant
Shaping Three Worlds
Gold in Peace
Announcing the Peace Corps Community’s 40 Under 40
Gallery
Flashback 1984: Travels in China
Global News. Peace Corps’ Independence. Teachers. Letters.
Keep Peace Corps Independent
World-Class Teachers
Letters Spring 2020: WorldView Readers Write
About WorldView
WorldView magazine brings you stories from and about the greater Peace Corps community, with connections to the wider world. We feature news, profiles, commentary and analysis, politics, arts, and ideas with a global perspective. We publish quarterly in print, with digital features throughout the year.
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About the Editor
Steven Boyd Saum came on board as editor of WorldView in January 2020. For more than two decades he has edited award-winning magazines in the San Francisco Bay Area, earning national recognition for writing, design, photography, illustration, and overall excellence. His journalism, essays, and fiction have appeared in Orion, The Believer, Creative Nonfiction, The Kenyon Review, Christian Science Monitor, on KQED FM, and other magazines and newspapers in the U.S. and internationally.
Steven is a native of the Chicago area and has lived on both U.S. coasts and in the South, with a good part of the 1990s spent in Central and Eastern Europe—starting with his Peace Corps service in Ukraine (1994-1996) as an assistant professor at Lesya Ukrainka East European National University. He also hosted a radio show and directed the Fulbright program and other academic exchanges for the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv. He has lived and worked in the Czech Republic, and he serves as a consular officer for the Czech Honorary Consulate General in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. He has served on the board of the Northern California Peace Corps Association, appeared on panels representing returned Volunteers, and regularly serves as an election observer with the OSCE.
Steven studied English and philosophy at Emory University and writing at Johns Hopkins. He speaks Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, German, and some Slovak. He was a three-time champion on Jeopardy! and has it on good authority that hieroglyphics is not a language. You can reach him at [email protected].
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What Our Readers Are Saying
“I would like to thank you for all of the amazing work you put into WorldView magazine. Reading it gives me a great feeling of solidarity with other Volunteers and RPCVs around the world and always serves to remind me that I’m part of something very special, and something that is much bigger than I am.”
— Anna Waterfield (Tanzania 2012–14)
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— Rachael Miller (Benin 2006–08)