Standing next to a pan filled with hot oil in that tiny kitchen was where I realized that cooking could be a catalyst for creating relationships.

February is nationally recognized as African American History Month.

When the Peace Corps called asking if I’d like to return to Dominica two months after Category 5 Hurricane Maria, I was at my parents’ house in South Carolina.

Are you an experienced STEM professional?

I joined the Peace Corps in 1972, right after I completed my master’s degree. 

When I first became a Peace Corps Response Volunteer, my intent was to offer the skills and passion I had acquired as an experienced educator and school leader to a country that had a need. 

Ballet.

Did you know you can serve in the Peace Corps as a music teacher or animation specialist? 

Rise with the sun.

If you lived and worked on a Caribbean island for two years, how many problems do you think you'd find? Peace Corps Volunteers Jilia and Greg Vento, a Florida couple serving together in St. Lucia, can count them all on one hand.

The first few years of my federal career in the 1980's were spent at NASA headquarters working for the Business Management Division of the newly initiated Space Station office. 

Most people think the typical Peace Corps Volunteer is a recent college graduate in his or her twenties. 

Growing up in New Jersey, I was surrounded by peers who were first generation American or immigrated to the United States at a very young age. I fit the norm in my culturally diverse secondary school.

Beginning in 1986, I served as an early childhood teacher trainer in Haiti.