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.