WorldView | Peace Corps Is Back
Winter 2023
The arrival of a new year also began a new era. As Volunteers return to service around the world, the first Volunteers in Viet Nam were part of a swearing-in ceremony in Ha Noi to close out 2022. And in January, Carol Spahn was sworn in as the new Peace Corps Director.
Peace Corps Volunteers Begin Service in Viet Nam
Peace Corps Is Back
Carol Spahn Sworn In as Peace Corps Director
ANNOTATION
Peace Corps Is Back
Here’s where Volunteers returned to service in 2022–23 and where they have been invited to return.
Annotation by Pamela Fogg and Steven Boyd Saum
The Peace Corps Reauthorization Act: Why It Didn’t Pass in 2022 — and Why That Matters
The Future that Almost Was
Posting Peace
Posting Peace: Peace Corps Posters 1961–2022
News and Updates
President’s Letter: Helping the Peace Corps Be Its Best
Be Good, Be Kind, and Be Lucky
Coming Together in a Time of Crisis
Meet the Winners of the Women of Peace Corps Legacy Awards
A New Fellowship for Global Peacebuilders
Marking a Place in History
IRAN: Protests, Repression, and Hope
Mapping a Life
Travels and Ghosts: The 2022 Peace Corps Writers Awards
An Accidental Stumble
People and Ideas
Leading USAID in West Africa
Reporting on Ukraine
In Memoriam
Painting with Her Own Paint
In Memoriam: Mary Broude
Remembering Stephen Reid and Djeswende Pasgo Reid
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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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