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Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs) are persons who have served in the United States Peace Corps. Here follows a list.

Business and Industry

  • Joshua Colt Gambrel, head brewer, Wolf Hills Brewing Company (Uzbekistan 2001, Mongolia 2003-2004)
  • Wesley Arnold, Director, Danaher Corporation (Togo 1990-91)
  • Bob Beckel
    Bob Beckel
    Robert Beckel is an American political commentator and an analyst on the Fox News Channel. He is also a columnist for USA Today where he writes "point-counterpoint" style articles with friend and political opposite Cal Thomas. He is the brother of actor Graham Beckel.-Career:Beckel holds a B.A....

    , political analyst, Bob Beckel & Associates (Philippines 1971-72)
  • Heather Buckmaster, executive director, Oklahoma Beef Council (The Gambia 1992-94)
  • Lawrence Jay Cevelo, Chairman, Store On Wheels (317-594-1667) (Ecuador 1990-1992)
  • Dan Chance, manager of Wasatch Micro Cap Fund (Paraguay)
  • Charlie Clifford, founder, Tumi luggage (Peru 1967-1969)
  • Patricia Cloherty
    Patricia Cloherty
    Patricia Cloherty, age 71, served as chairman and CEO of Delta Private Equity Partners. Cloherty served as manager of the U.S. Russia Investment Fund and Delta Russia Fund, two venture capital funds operating in Russia...

    , Chairman and CEO, Delta Private Equity Partners, former Chairman of The U.S. Russia Investment Fund (Brazil 1963-65)
  • Edward Dolby, president, Bank of America, Carolinas (India 1966-68)
  • John Earhart, chairman of the board and a founding shareholder of Global Environment Fund Management Corporation (Guatemala 1975-77)
  • James M. Freedman, Vice President, Leadership Development, Fresenius Medical Care North America (South Korea 1972-74)
  • David S. Geiman, chairman of the executive committee, board of directors, president and chief executive officer of the CattleSale Company (Sierra Leone 1967-70)
  • Samuel Gillespie III, senior vice president, Exxon Mobil Corp. (Kenya 1967-69)
  • Jan Guifarro, World Wide Director of Global Consumer Affairs for the Colgate Palmolive Company (Honduras 1973-75)
  • Frank Guzzetta, CEO of Hecht's (India 1968-72)
  • Robert Haas, chairman of board for Levi Strauss (Ivory Coast 1964-66)
  • Reed Hastings
    Reed Hastings
    Wilmot Reed Hastings, Jr. is an entrepreneur and education philanthropist. He is the CEO of Netflix, and on the boards of Microsoft, Facebook, and numerous non-profit organizations.- Early life and education :...

    , founder and CEO of Netflix (Swaziland 1983-85)
  • Wilber James, CEO of Citizens Power (Kenya 1971-72)
  • Ginny Kirkwood, owner of Shawnee on the Delaware Inn and Resort (Turkey 1964-66, and Thailand 1990-93)
  • James Kouzes, president of Tom Peters Group (Turkey 1967-69)
  • Michael McCaskey
    Michael McCaskey
    Michael McCaskey was the Chairman of the Chicago Bears in the National Football League.-Biography:McCaskey, son of current Bears principal owner Virginia Halas McCaskey, is the oldest grandchild of George Halas and became president of the Bears in 1983 after Halas' death. McCaskey held that post...

    , chairman of the board, Chicago Bears (Ethiopia 1965-67)
  • Robert McCormack, executive vice president of Citicorp (Colombia 1968-70)
  • Ann
    Ann Moore (inventor)
    Ann Moore is an American nurse credited as the inventor of the Snugli and Weego child carriers.Moore was a pediatric nurse by training, and, following humanitarian work in Germany and Morocco, she was one of the earliest volunteers for the Peace Corps...

     and Michael Moore, former CEO and chairman of Snugli Co. and Airlift Company (Togo 1962-64)
  • Frederic Poses, CEO of American Standard Co. (Peru 1967-1969)
  • Gordon Radley, president of Lucasfilms Ltd. (Malawi 1968-70)
  • Dwight A. Roberts, Chief Executive Officer, U.S. Rice Producers Association (Paraguay 1977-80)
  • Tom Scanlon, president of Benchmarks (Chile 1961-63)
  • Kathy Tierney, CEO of Sur la Table (Fiji 1967-69)
  • James Warner, Director of Policy of Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Association (Guatemala 2002 - 2004)
  • Priscilla Wrubel, founder of the Nature Company (Liberia 1961-63)
  • J. Henry Ambrose, Vice President, State Public Policy, Verizon Maryland and Washington, DC (Kenya 1970 - 73)
  • Patrick Currin, President, Automotive Solutions (Honduras 2004-2006)

Arts & Literature

  • Michele Vachon Beaudin, author of "Crossing the 50 Yard Line", "Crossing the Dream Line", "The Mountain", "Seasons on Lookout Mountain", "Visions of Reality - Illusions of Truth", Winner of the Living Now Book Awards (Morocco 2000-2001)
  • Tom Bissell, author of "Chasing the Sea" and "The Father of All Things," Winner of the Rome Prize (Uzbekistan 1996-97)
  • Edmund Blair Bolles
    Edmund Blair Bolles
    Edmund Blair Bolles is an American humanist and author who argues that human freedom, and originality are real and natural, deriving their powers from modifications of animal memory systems. He developed this doctrine in three books written in the 1980s.So Much to Say is about the language of...

    , author of A Second Way of Knowing (Tanzania
    Tanzania
    The United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...

     1966-68)
  • Catherine Bowman, author of Rock Farm and 1-800-HOT-RIBS; recipient of Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize (Niger
    Niger
    Niger , officially named the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa, named after the Niger River. It borders Nigeria and Benin to the south, Burkina Faso and Mali to the west, Algeria and Libya to the north and Chad to the east...

     1984-86)
  • Mark Brazaitis, author of River of Lost Voices: Stories from Guatemala (Guatemala
    Guatemala
    Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast...

     1990-93)
  • Broughton Coburn, author of Everest: Mountain Without Mercy (Nepal
    Nepal
    Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...

     1976-78)
  • Cameron Cowell, documentary film maker, "Our Grandfathers Fields". (Costa Rica 1985-1988)
  • Richard "Kinky" Friedman
    Kinky Friedman
    Richard S. "Kinky" Friedman is an American Texas Country singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician and former columnist for Texas Monthly who styles himself in the mold of popular American satirists Will Rogers and Mark Twain. He was one of two independent candidates in the 2006 election...

    , author of Blast From the Past (Malaysia 1967-69)
  • Taylor Hackford
    Taylor Hackford
    Taylor Edwin Hackford is an American film director, and the current president of the Directors Guild of America.-Early life:Hackford was born in Santa Barbara, California, the son of Mary , a waitress, and Joseph Hackford...

    , movie producer of Ray, An Officer and a Gentleman; and The Devil's Advocate (Bolivia
    Bolivia
    Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...

     1968-69)
  • Kent Haruf
    Kent Haruf
    Kent Haruf is an award-winning American novelist.-Life:Haruf was born in Pueblo, Colorado, the son of a Methodist minister...

    , author of Plainsong (Turkey
    Turkey
    Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

     1966-68)
  • Susana Herrera, author of Mango Elephants in the Sun: How Life in an African Village Let Me Be in My Skin; contributor to Chicken Soup for the Volunteer's Soul: Stories to Celebrate the Spirit of Courage, Caring and Commitment (Cameroon
    Cameroon
    Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon , is a country in west Central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Cameroon's coastline lies on the...

     1992-94)
  • Peter Hessler
    Peter Hessler
    Peter Hessler is an American writer and journalist. He is the author of three acclaimed books about China and has contributed numerous articles to The New Yorker and National Geographic, among other publications...

    , author of River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (China
    China
    Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

     1996-97)
  • Rajiv Joseph, playwright, finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama (Senegal
    Senegal
    Senegal , officially the Republic of Senegal , is a country in western Africa. It owes its name to the Sénégal River that borders it to the east and north...

     1996- 99)
  • Lawrence Leamer, author of The Kennedy Women: The Saga of an American Family (Nepal 1965-67)
  • Peter Lefcourt
    Peter Lefcourt
    Peter Lefcourt is an American television producer, a film and television screenwriter, and a novelist.Lefcourt's early career involved writing teleplays for primetime series such as Cagney and Lacey, Scarecrow and Mrs. King , Eight is Enough, and Remington Steele, among others...

    , television writer and author of The Woody (Togo 1962-64)
  • Leonard Levitt, reporter for Newsday and author of An African Season (Tanzania 1963-65)
  • Phillip Margolin
    Phillip Margolin
    -Biography:Phillip Margolin was born in New York City in 1944. After receiving a B.A. in Government in 1965, from American University in Washington, D.C., he worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia until 1967...

    , author of Gone, But Not Forgotten; and The Burning Man (Liberia
    Liberia
    Liberia , officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Sierra Leone on the west, Guinea on the north and Côte d'Ivoire on the east. Liberia's coastline is composed of mostly mangrove forests while the more sparsely populated inland consists of forests that open...

     1962-64)
  • Roland Merullo
    Roland Merullo
    Roland Merullo is an American author who writes novels, essays and memoir. His best-known works are the novels Breakfast with Buddha, In Revere, In Those Days, A Little Love Story, Revere Beach Boulevard and the memoir Revere Beach Elegy...

    , author of Leaving Losapas, In Revere, In Those Days, Breakfast with Buddha, (Micronesia
    Micronesia
    Micronesia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising thousands of small islands in the western Pacific Ocean. It is distinct from Melanesia to the south, and Polynesia to the east. The Philippines lie to the west, and Indonesia to the southwest....

     1979-1980)
  • Robert D. Mowry, Dworsky Curator of Chinese Arts at Harvard (Korea
    Korea
    Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...

     1967-69)
  • Martin Puryear
    Martin Puryear
    Martin Puryear is an African American sculptor. He works in media including wood, stone, tar, and wire, and his work is a union of minimalism and traditional crafts.-Life:...

    , sculptor (Sierra Leone
    Sierra Leone
    Sierra Leone , officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea to the north and east, Liberia to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west and southwest. Sierra Leone covers a total area of and has an estimated population between 5.4 and 6.4...

     1964-66)
  • Richard Sanders, actor best known for playing Les Nessman
    Les Nessman
    Les Nessman is a fictional character on the television situation comedy WKRP in Cincinnati played by Richard Sanders. He reprised his role in the sequel series, The New WKRP in Cincinnati.-Background and Appearance:...

     on WKRP in Cincinnati
    WKRP in Cincinnati
    WKRP in Cincinnati is an American situation comedy that featured the misadventures of the staff of a struggling fictional radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio. The show was created by Hugh Wilson and was based upon his experiences working in advertising sales at Top 40 radio station WQXI in Atlanta...

    (Brazil
    Brazil
    Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

     1966-69)
  • Matt Sesow, visionary artist, (Solomon Islands 1998–2000)
  • Bob Shacochis
    Bob Shacochis
    Bob Shacochis is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary journalist. He teaches creative writing at Florida State University.-Writing career:...

    , author of Easy in the Island, winner of the American Book Award
    American Book Award
    The American Book Award was established in 1978 by the Before Columbus Foundation. It seeks to recognize outstanding literary achievement by contemporary American authors, without restriction to race, sex, ethnic background, or genre...

     (Eastern Caribbean 1975-76)
  • Joel Shapiro
    Joel Shapiro
    Joel Shapiro is an American sculptor renowned for his dynamic work composed of simple rectangular shapes. Shapiro is represented by The Pace Gallery in New York. He lives and works in New York City, with a summer house on the shore of Lake Champlain, in Westport, New York...

    , sculptor (India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

     1965-67)
  • Dawnette Sullivan Owens, author of The Soul Sticks Around (Botswana 1984-86)
  • Mildred Taylor
    Mildred D. Taylor
    Mildred DeLois Taylor is an African American author, known for her works exploring the struggle faced by African-American families in the Deep South....

    , author of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, winner of Newbery Award (Ethiopia
    Ethiopia
    Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...

     1965-67)
  • Paul Theroux
    Paul Theroux
    Paul Edward Theroux is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best known work of travel writing is perhaps The Great Railway Bazaar . He has also published numerous works of fiction, some of which were made into feature films. He was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his...

    , author of Mosquito Coast
    Mosquito Coast
    The Caribbean Mosquito Coast historically consisted of an area along the Atlantic coast of present-day Nicaragua and Honduras, and part of the Western Caribbean Zone. It was named after the local Miskito Indians and long dominated by British interests...

     and Great Railway Bazaar (Malawi
    Malawi
    The Republic of Malawi is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast, and Mozambique on the east, south and west. The country is separated from Tanzania and Mozambique by Lake Malawi. Its size...

     1963-65)
  • Moritz Thomsen
    Moritz Thomsen
    Moritz Thomsen was an American farmer, writer, and Peace Corps volunteer who worked in the small Ecuadorian town of Rio Verde. His books have been praised by writers such as Paul Theroux, Thomas Cahill and Larry McMurtry.- Life :...

    , author of Living Poor (Ecuador
    Ecuador
    Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...

     1963 - 65)
  • Mary-Ann Tirone Smith, author of An American Killing, Girls of Tender Age, and most recently, Dirty Water: A Red Sox Mystery (Cameroon 1965-67)
  • Annabelle Townson, author of We Wait For You (Romania
    Romania
    Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

     2001-2003)
  • Jeremy Waldron, author for Other Places Publishing; Pulitzer Prize
    Pulitzer Prize
    The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

     winning travel writer (Namibia
    Namibia
    Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia , is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March...

     2006-2008)
  • Richard Wiley
    Richard Wiley
    Richard Wiley is an American novelist and short story writer whose first novel, Soldiers in Hiding won the 1987 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He has published five other novels and a number of short stories ....

    , author of Ahmed's Revenge and Soldiers in Hiding, winner of PEN/Faulkner Award (Korea 1967-69)

Communications

  • Ron Arias, senior editor for People magazine and author of The Road to Tamazunchale (Peru 1963-64)
  • Dave Arnold, former Editor of "Worldview" magazine (Ethiopia 1964-66)
  • Douglas Bilken, co-producer for 2004 Oscar Nominee for best Documentary Short Subject "Autism Is A World," professor at Syracuse University (Sierra Leone 1960s)
  • David Briscoe, chief correspondent of World Desk for Associated Press (Philippines 1966-70)
  • Alrick Brown, documentary filmmaker (Sierra Leone)
  • Dan Carney, reporter for Business Week (Benin 1983-85)
  • John Coyne, Editor of "Peace Corps Writers" (Ethiopia 1962-64)
  • Frank G Anderson, founder of the Korat Post newspaper, NE Thailand's first local English language newspaper (Thailand 1965-67)
  • Karen DeWitt, producer, abcnews.com (Ethiopia 1966-68)
  • Thomas Dine, President, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Philippines 1962-64)
  • Judy Dugan, assistant editorial page editor for the Los Angeles Times (Philippines 1966-68)
  • Beth Duff-Brown, Overseas Correspondent for Associated Press (Congo Kinshasa 1979-81)
  • Josh Friedman, correspondent for Newsday (Costa Rica 1964-66)
  • Jay Hooker, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for New York Times (China 2000-02)
  • Kathleen Ingley, reporter for the Arizona Republic (Senegal 1972-75)
  • Al Kamen, writes In the Loop column in the Washington Post (Dominican Republic 1967-69)
  • Robert Laird, op-ed page editor for N.Y. Daily News (Somalia 1962-63)
  • Michael Maidenberg, Pulitzer prize-winning publisher and vice president and chief program officer of the Knight Foundation (India 1964-66)
  • Chris Matthews
    Chris Matthews
    Christopher John "Chris" Matthews is an American news anchor and political commentator, known for his nightly hour-long talk show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, which is televised on the American cable television channel MSNBC...

    , host of NBC's Hardball (Swaziland 1968-70)
  • Jim Morrill, reporter for the Charlotte Observer (Togo 1973-76)
  • Bruce Nussbaum, editorial page editor for Business Week (Philippines 1966-69)
  • Henry Muller, editorial director for Time, Inc. (Ethiopia 1968-69)
  • Joshua Norman, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for Biloxi Sun Herald (Togo 2000-02)
  • Maureen Orth, special correspondent for Vanity Fair (Colombia 1964-66)
  • Ann O'Hanlon, reporter for the Washington Post (Ecuador 1986-88)
  • Hugh Pickens, Publisher and Editor of "Peace Corps Online" (Peru 1970-73)
  • Michelle Press, managing editor for Scientific American (Malawi 1962-64)
  • Howard Seftel, restaurant critic for the Arizona Republic (Senegal 1972-75)
  • Peter Stinton, enterprise senior writer for the San Francisco Chronicle (Iran 1969-1971)
  • Bob Vila
    Bob Vila
    Robert Joseph "Bob" Vila is an American home improvement television show host known for This Old House , Bob Vila's Home Again , and Bob Vila .-Early life:...

    , Host of Television show "This Old House" (Panama 1971-73)
  • Bruce Watson, Journalist and Historian, Author of Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders and the Judgment of Mankind (Costa Rica)
  • Jonathan Weisman, White House correspondent for the Baltimore Sun (Guinea-Bissau and Philippines 1988-90)
  • William Wong, columnist for the San Francisco Examiner (Philippines 1967-68)

Medical, Non-Profit and Development

  • Edward Abbey, Country Director Egypt, Plan International (Colombia 1974-1975)
  • John Anner, president, East Meets West Foundation
    East Meets West Foundation
    East Meets West Foundation is the largest non-governmental organization acting in Vietnam, with additional programs in Southeast Asia, which describes itself as "the foundation for learning, healing and health." It was founded in 1988 by author and humanitarian Le Ly Hayslip, and is based in...

     (Mauritania, 1983–1985)
  • Anne Arquette, Nurse and Social Activist, Corvais, OR (Togo, 1985–1987)
  • Lillian Baer, founder of Africa Consultants International/Baobab Center (Côte d'Ivoire 1966-68)
  • Carol Bellamy
    Carol Bellamy
    Carol Bellamy has been Director of the Peace Corps, Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund , and President and CEO of World Learning. In April, 2009, Bellamy was appointed as Chair of the International Baccalaureate Board of Governors...

    , former Peace Corps Director, former head of UNESCO, president of World Learning (Guatemala 1963-1965)
  • Lillian Carter nurse, mother of President Jimmy Carter
    Jimmy Carter
    James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...

     (India 1966-68)
  • Pat Christen, President and CEO, HopeLab; former President and Executive Director, San Francisco AIDS Foundation
    San Francisco AIDS Foundation
    Committed to ending the pandemic and human suffering caused by HIV, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation develops innovative solutions, combining scientific evidence with community experience to fight HIV/AIDS and promote health...

     (Kenya 1982-85)
  • Rev. Gerald Durley, president of Concerned Black Clergy of Atlanta (Nigeria 1964-66)
  • Gary Engelberg, founder of Africa Consultants International/Baobab Center (Senegal 1965-67)
  • Barbara Ferris, president and founder, International Women's Democracy Center (Morocco 1980-82)
  • Ina May Gaskin
    Ina May Gaskin
    Ina May Gaskin, CPM, has been described as "the mother of authentic midwifery."-Family:Gaskin was born to an Iowa Protestant family . Her father, Talford Middleton, was raised on a large Iowa farm, which was lost to a bank not long after his father’s accidental death in 1926...

    , Certified Professional Midwife, author, known as the "Mother of Modern Midwifery" (Malaysia 1963-65)
  • Rajeev Goyal, lobbyist, activist, head of "Push for the Peace Corps" (Nepal
    Nepal
    Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...

     2001 - 2003)
  • Meg Garlinghouse, Senior Director, Yahoo! for Good (Niger 1990-92)
  • Ken Hackett, president, Catholic Relief Services (Ghana 1968-1971)
  • Charles Snead Houston
    Charles Snead Houston
    -References:-External links:* - Daily Telegraph obituary* Independent obituary, 1 October 2009.-Notes:...

    , high-altitude medical researcher and mountaineer (first Country Director, India 1962-65)
  • Alberto Ibarguen, president, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (Venezuela 1966-68)
  • Elaine Jones, director-counsel and president, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (Turkey 1965-67)
  • Nancy Kelly, executive director, Health Volunteers Overseas
    Health Volunteers Overseas
    Health Volunteers Overseas is a Washington, DC-based nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the health care of developing countries through the training and education of local health care providers.-History:...

     (Korea 1979-81)
  • Aaron King, President, Peace Corps Employees Union, AFSCME Local 3548 (Ghana 1981-83)
  • Jonathan Lash, president of World Resources Institute (Dominican Republic 1967-69)
  • Jerry Leach, president of the World Affairs Councils of America (Turkey 1964-66)
  • Marianne Leach, public policy and government relations director, CARE (Turkey 1964-66)
  • Lawrence F. Lihosit, urban planner & author of South of the Frontera; A Peace Corps Memoir, Peace Corps Chronology; 1961–2010, Whispering Campaign; Stories from Mesoamerica and Years On and Other Travel Essays (Honduras 1975-1977)
  • Georgia Merrick, Qualified Mental Health Practitioner, ISCS (Zambia 2002-2005)
  • Arlene Mitchell, chief of school feeding support, United Nations World Food Programme (Niger 1973-76)
  • Donald Mosley
    Donald Mosley
    Donald Mosley is a co-founder of the Habitat for Humanity organization. Mosley was a Peace Corps volunteer in Malaysia and a regional director in South Korea. With a background in history, math, engineering and anthropology, he helped launch Habitat for Humanity in the 1970s...

    , co-founder of the Habitat for Humanity organization (Malaysia)
  • Fred O'Regan, executive director of International Fund for Animal Welfare (Swaziland 1970-71)
  • Carl Pope, executive director of Sierra Club (India 1967-69)
  • Kevin Quigley, president of National Peace Corps Association (Thailand 1976-79)
  • Florence Reed, Founder and Director of Sustainable Harvest International
    Sustainable Harvest International
    Sustainable Harvest International is a non-profit organization, based in the United States, that addresses the tropical deforestation crisis in Central America and provides farmers with sustainable alternatives to slash-and-burn agriculture...

     (Panama 1991-93)
  • Mark Schneider
    Mark Schneider
    Mark Schneider is a Democratic politician who formerly served in the Ohio House of Representatives. A former Cuyahoga County assistant prosecutor, Schneider opted to enter the race in 2008 to try and defeat one-term incumbent Carol-Ann Schindel. A contentious race, it proved to be one of the...

    , former Peace Corps Director, senior vice president of International Crisis Group (El Salvador 1966-68)
  • Tony Silard, founder of Global Education Partnership (Kenya 1990-92)
  • Dane Smith, former president of National Peace Corps Association; former ambassador to Senegal and Guinea (Ethiopia 1963-65)
  • Gordon Smith, chairman of Children's Museum About the World (India 1966-69)
  • Thomas Tighe, president and CEO, Direct Relief International (Thailand 1986-88)
  • Lisa Wasilewski, inventor cellulose nutritional supplement. Candidate Nobel Peace Prize (Namibia, 2006–2008)

Government

  • Harry Birnholz, mission director, USAID/Albania (Benin 1974-77)
  • Patricia Buckles, USAID/Peru director, Peace Corps (Guatemala 1973-77)
  • Jon Carson, Director of the Office of Public Engagement, Chief of Staff at White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), Field Director for Obama's 2008 campaign (Honduras 2004 - 2006)
  • Donald B. Clark, USAID mission director, Senegal (Burkina Faso 1969-71)
  • Christopher Dodd
    Christopher Dodd
    Christopher John "Chris" Dodd is an American lawyer, lobbyist, and Democratic Party politician who served as a United States Senator from Connecticut for a thirty-year period ending with the 111th United States Congress....

    , U.S. Senator, Connecticut (Dominican Republic 1966-68)
  • Jim Doyle
    Jim Doyle
    James Edward "Jim" Doyle is a Wisconsin politician and member of the Democratic Party. He was the 44th Governor of Wisconsin, serving from January 6, 2003 to January 3, 2011. He defeated incumbent Governor Scott McCallum by a margin of 45 percent to 41 percent; the Libertarian Party candidate Ed...

    , Governor of Wisconsin and wife Jessica Doyle (Tunisia 1967-69)
  • Steve Driehaus
    Steve Driehaus
    Steven L. "Steve" Driehaus is the former U.S. Representative for , serving from 2009 until 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party...

    , U.S. Representative from Ohio (Senegal 1988-1990)
  • Sam Farr
    Sam Farr
    Samuel S. "Sam" Farr is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1993. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He was elected to Congress in a 1993 special election when longtime Democratic Rep...

    , U.S. Representative from California (Colombia 1964-66)
  • John Garamendi
    John Garamendi
    John Raymond Garamendi is the U.S. Representative for , serving since November 2009. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Garamendi was the California State Insurance Commissioner from 1991 to 1995, the U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Interior from 1995 to 1998, and the California State Insurance...

    , State of California Insurance Commissioner, US Congressman from California (Ethiopia 1966-68)
  • Gene George, USAID mission director, Bangladesh (Nepal 1972-73)
  • Richard Goughnour, USAID/Brazil Director (Brazil 1974-76)
  • Gordon Gray, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (Morocco 1978-1980)
  • Tony P. Hall
    Tony P. Hall
    Tony Patrick Hall is an American politician who served as a Democrat from Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives for more than 20 years....

    , Former US Congressman from Ohio, Former Ambassador to the FAO (Thailand 1966-67)
  • Mike Honda, U.S. Representative from California (El Salvador 1965-67)
  • Elisa Long, public defender in Mariana Islands (Marshall Islands 1987-89)
  • Joseph W. Lown, mayor of San Angelo, Texas (Bolivia 1999-2001)
  • Dan McAllister, treasurer tax collector of San Diego, CA (Micronesia 1974-77)
  • Thomas Murphy, Jr.
    Tom Murphy (mayor)
    Thomas J. "Tom" Murphy, Jr. is a Democratic politician from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. From January 1994 until January 2006 he served as mayor of Pittsburgh...

    , mayor of the City of Pittsburgh, PA (Paraguay 1970-72)
  • Matthew Patrick, Massachusetts State Representative (Ghana 1977-79)
  • Sarah Parker, associate justice, North Carolina Supreme Court (Turkey 1964-66)
  • Terry Peterson, deputy secretary of U.S. Department of Education (Brazil 1967-69)
  • Thomas Petri, U.S. Representative from Wisconsin (Somalia 1966-67)
  • Michael A. Rice
    Michael A. Rice
    Michael Alan Rice, is an American professor of fisheries and aquaculture at the University of Rhode Island and former state representative from South Kingstown, Rhode Island...

    , Rhode Island State Representative (Philippines 1981-85)
  • Ken Roberts, Assistant Administrator, Foreign Agriculture Service, USDA (Paraguay 1977-79)
  • Denny Robertson, USAID Director for the Caucasus Region (Philippines 1977-79)
  • Patrick A. Rogers, Chief of Staff for Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chaffee (Gabon)
  • Tod Satterthwaite, mayor of Urbana, Illinois (Grenada 1990-92)
  • Joe Serna Jr. - former mayor of Sacramento, California (Guatemala 1969-70)
  • Donna Shalala
    Donna Shalala
    Donna Edna Shalala served for eight years as Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Bill Clinton and has been president of the University of Miami, a private university in Coral Gables, Florida, since 2001. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest...

    , former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (Iran 1962-64)
  • Christopher Shays
    Christopher Shays
    Christopher H. Shays is an American politician. He was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives and represented the 4th District of Connecticut....

    , former U.S. Representative from Connecticut (Fiji 1968-70)
  • Bob Taft
    Bob Taft
    Robert Alphonso "Bob" Taft II is an Ohio Republican Party politician. He was elected to two terms of office as the 67th Governor of the U.S. state of Ohio between 1999-2007. After leaving office, Taft started working for the University of Dayton beginning August 15, 2007.-Personal background:Taft...

    , served as governor of Ohio from 1999 to 2007. (Tanzania 1963-65)
  • Ron Tschetter
    Ron Tschetter
    -Education and Peace Corps service:Tschetter earned a bachelor's degree from Bethel University in psychology and social studies. After college, he and some friends traveled and hitchhiked around Europe, Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Egypt. He returned home and met and married his wife Nancy...

    , former Peace Corps Director (India 1966-68)
  • Paul Tsongas
    Paul Tsongas
    Paul Efthemios Tsongas was a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1979 to 1985. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 1992 presidential election. He previously served as a U.S...

     Former US Senator, candidate for President in 1992 (Ethiopia 1962-64)
  • James Walsh
    James Walsh
    James Walsh may refer to:*James Morrow Walsh , NWMP officer and first commissioner of Yukon Territory*James J. Walsh , American politician, U.S...

    , former U.S. Representative from New York (Nepal 1970-72)
  • John Walsh, Acting Comptroller of the Currency, Washington, DC (Ghana 1973-75)
  • Tom Weisner, Mayor of Aurora, Illinois (Solomon Islands 1980-85)
  • Cathy Woolard, Atlanta City Council (Micronesia 1980-81)

Education

  • Joe Acaba, mission specialist educator astronaut for NASA (Dominican Republic 1994-96)
  • Cecile Arquette, Associate Professor of Education, Bradley University Peoria, IL USA (Cameroon, 1987–1989
  • Charles Baquet, director of the Center for Intercultural & International Programs, Xavier University of Louisiana (Somalia 1965-67)
  • Stephen Beaver, associate dean of admissions of Thunderbird School of International Studies (Tanzania 1965-67)
  • Margaret Berg, Assistant Professor of Literacy, University of Northern Colorado (Ukraine 1991-1993)
  • Tex Boggs, president of the Western Wyoming Community College System (Thailand 1962-64)
  • Todd Braje, professor of anthropology at Humboldt State University, winner of USA 50 Mile road title in 2009 (Tonga)
  • Leonel Castillo, president and co-founder of Houston International University (Philippines 1961-63)
  • Theodore Celeste, chairman of board of trustees of Ohio State University (Fiji 1968-70)
  • Leon Dash, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Swanlund Professor of Journalism, University of Illinois at Urbana (Kenya 1969-70)
  • Drew Days, professor, Yale Law School (Honduras 1967-69)
  • Brady J. Deaton, chancellor or the University of Missouri-Columbia (Thailand 1962-64)
  • George Drake, former president of Grinnell College (Lesotho 1991-93)
  • Christopher Drake, elementary teacher in Detroit Public Schools (Belize 1987-89)
  • Anne Gallenstein, Professor of Nursing, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY (Mali 1980-82)
  • Allan Gibbard
    Allan Gibbard
    Allan Gibbard is the Richard B. Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Allan Gibbard has made several contributions to contemporary ethical theory, in particular metaethics...

    , Richard B. Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan (Ghana 1963-65)
  • Thomas Gouttierre, dean of International Studies and Programs and director of the Center for Afghanistan Studies, University of Nebraska-Omaha (Afghanistan 1965-67)
  • John E. Greisberger, president of NAFSA: Association of International Educators (Afghanistan 1973-75)
  • Leo Higdon, Jr., president of Connecticut College, former president of the College of Charleston (Malawi 1968-70)
  • James M. Kouzes, dean's professor of leadership at Santa Clara University (Turkey 1967-69)
  • Joann La Perla-Morales, president of Middlesex County College (Colombia 1968-70)
  • James Lyons Sr., president of California State University, Dominguez Hills (Ecuador 1966-67)
  • Kathleen F. Malu, Associate Professor, William Paterson University of New Jersey (Zaire 1973-75; Rwanda 1980-81), Fulbright Scholar (Rwanda 2010)
  • M. Peter McPherson, former president of Michigan State University, former Chairman of the Wall Street Journal (Peru 1964-66)
  • William G. Moseley
    William G. Moseley
    William G. Moseley is an author, scholar and professor of geography at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is a development and human-environment geographer with particular expertise in political ecology, tropical agriculture, environment and development policy, livelihood security,...

    , Professor of Geography, Macalester College (Mali 1987-89)
  • Scott Nelowet, President, Sanford-Brown Institute, (Tunisia 1990-91)
  • Joyce Neu, director of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice at the University of Sand Diego (Senegal 1972-74)
  • Julius Nimmons, president of University of the District of Columbia (Tunisia 1962-64)
  • Joseph Opala, Anthropologist at James Madison University (Sierra Leone 1974-76)
  • Marjorie Pfannkuch-Bakan, president of Wheelock College (Philippines 1961-63)
  • Michael A. Rice
    Michael A. Rice
    Michael Alan Rice, is an American professor of fisheries and aquaculture at the University of Rhode Island and former state representative from South Kingstown, Rhode Island...

    , professor, University of Rhode Island (Philippines 1981-1985)
  • Bruce Rosen, Borough of Manhattan Community College, hostage taken during Iranian Hostage Crisis, Plaintiff in lawsuit against Iran (Iran 1967 - 1969)
  • Jeswald Salacuse, dean of Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (Nigeria 1963-65)
  • Donna Shalala, president of the University of Miami (Iran 1962-64)
  • Amy Smith, MacArthur Award Winner, Founder of D-Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Botswana 1985-89)
  • Michael J. Snarskis
    Michael J. Snarskis
    Michael Jay Snarskis was an archeologist from the United States who founded the scientific study of archaeology in Costa Rica...

    , Archaeologist, University of Costa Rica (UCR, Discoverer of Guardiria - the first area of human occupation in Costa Rica (Costa Rica 1967 - 1969)
  • Robert Trumble, dean of Graduate School of Business at Virginia Commonwealth University (Peru 1963-65)
  • Dr. John Sumser, professor of Communications at California State University, Stanislaus (Afghanistan, unknown years)
  • William T. Winter, professor of Chemistry, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry,(Malaysia 1966 - 1968)
  • Howard Dodson, Director of the Schomburg Center for research in Black Culture, (Ecuador 1964-66)

Foreign Service

  • Frank Almaguer, former ambassador to Honduras (Belize 1967-69)
  • Richard A. Boucher, assistant secretary of state, South and Central Asian affairs, (Senegal 1973-75)
  • Michael Corbin, Ambassador to Abu Dhabi (Mauritania 1982 - 84)
  • Scott Nelowet, President, Sanford-Brown Institute, (Tunisia 1990-91)
  • Raymond Burghardt, director, American Institute of Taiwan (Colombia 1968-69)
  • Johnnie Carson, ambassador to Kenya (Tanzania 1965-68)
  • Greg Engle, ambassador to Togo (South Korea 1980-81)
  • Richard Erdman, ambassador to Algeria (Turkey 1967-69)
  • Jerry Everhart, professor, Eastern New Mexico University (Malawi 1982-84)
  • Robert W. Fitts, ambassador to Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu (Malaysia 1970-72)
  • Robert Ford, Ambassador to Syria (Morocco 1982 - 84)
  • Robert Gelbard, ambassador to Indonesia (Bolivia 1964-66)
  • David N. Greenlee, ambassador to Bolivia; previously ambassador to Paraguay, (Bolivia 1965-67)
  • Tony Hall, ambassador to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Agencies (Thailand 1966-67)
  • Christopher R. Hill
    Christopher R. Hill
    Christopher Robert Hill is an American diplomat who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq.On July 1, 2010, Hill was chosen to be the dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver...

    , assistant secretary of state, East Asian and Pacific Affairs (Cameroon 1974-76)
  • Thomas Neil Hull, III, ambassador to the Republic of Sierra Leone (Sierra Leone 1968-70)
  • Vicki Huddleston
    Vicki Huddleston
    Vicki J. Huddleston is a U.S. diplomat.Since June 2009, Ambassador Huddleston has been the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. She is a former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Africa; U.S. Ambassador to Madagascar...

    , ambassador to Mali and Madagascar, Charge de affaires to Haiti and Ethiopia, and Principal Officer to the US Interests Section in Havana (Peru 1964-66)
  • Cameron R. Hume, ambassador to the Republic of South Africa; previously ambassador to Algeria (Libya 1968-69)
  • John Francis Keane, ambassador to Paraguay (Colombia 1966-69)
  • Darryl N. Johnson
    Darryl N. Johnson
    Darryl Norman Johnson is a retired American statesman and career Foreign Service Officer who held many positions in American government around the world. Most recently and importantly he was the United States Ambassador to Thailand from 2001–2004...

    , ambassador to Thailand (Thailand 1962-65)
  • James Mack, deputy assistant secretary of state, International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (Honduras 1963-65)
  • R. Niels Marquardt, ambassador to the Republics of Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea (Rwanda 1977-79)
  • Larry L. Palmer, ambassador to Honduras (Liberia, 1971–1973)
  • Don McConnell, ambassador to Eritrea (Nigeria 1963-65)
  • Richard Allan Roth, ambassador to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau (Burkina Faso, 1969–72)
  • Kathleen Stephens
    Kathleen Stephens
    -Early life:Stephens was born in west Texas and grew up in New Mexico and Arizona. She holds a B.A. in East Asian studies from Prescott College and a Master's degree from Harvard University, and also studied at Oxford University...

    , ambassador to South Korea (South Korea, 1975–77)
  • R. Barrie Walkley, ambassador to Gabon and the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe (Somalia, 19

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