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January 28, 2023

IRAN: Protests, Repression, and Hope

The mass demonstrations against the repressive clerical regime in Iran are arguably the greatest threat the Iranian government has faced in 43 years. From an essay by Paul Barker Editor...

January 26, 2023

A New Fellowship for Global Peacebuilders

NPCA President Emeritus Chic Dambach has previously been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Now Oklahoma State University has launched a scholarship program in his honor. By Steven Boyd Saum...

January 25, 2023

Marking a Place in History

Celebrating Where Peace Corps Training Began By Tiffany James Photo at left: Students in Tanganyika (now Tanzania) with Roger Rhatton, a Peace Corps Volunteer from Bay Village, Ohio, 1965. Photo...

January 25, 2023

Reporting on Ukraine

Two returned Volunteers who served in Ukraine now play key roles as journalists reporting on that country.   By NPCA Staff   Sabra Ayres (Ukraine 1995–97) was named chief correspondent...

January 25, 2023

Leading USAID in West Africa

Jo Lesser-Oltheten now heads work for the agency in the region. It was the Peace Corps that first took her there three decades ago.   By NPCA Staff   Jo...

January 21, 2023

Painting with Her Own Paint

A remembrance of Patricia Cloherty (1942–2022) By Steven Boyd Saum Illustration courtesy Columbia Teachers College   When the New York Times and Wall Street Journal marked the passing of Patricia...

January 20, 2023

Harris Bostic II Left a Career in Wall Street to Serve with the Peace Corps in Guinea

A remembrance of Harris Bostic II (1963–2022) By Steven Boyd Saum   After studying at Morehouse College, Harris Bostic embarked on a career on Wall Street. He left that to...

January 19, 2023

Bradley Broder Established the Kenya Education Fund to Support Young Kenyans

A remembrance of Brad Broder (1976–2022) By NPCA Staff   In 1999 Bradley Broder joined the Peace Corps, working in a village at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro for two...

January 18, 2023

Remembering Stephen Reid and Djeswende Pasgo Reid

Their life together carried them around the world, then back to Stephen’s home in Concord, New Hampshire. By Steven Boyd Saum   Concord, New Hampshire, was where Stephen Reid was...

November 14, 2022

In Memoriam: Mary Broude

As a lifelong Volunteer, she served as a steady beacon of Peace Corps ideals. And her commitment to the Peace Corps community and desire to create a positive experience for...

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