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SUMMARY:75th Program Year – Eighth Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The Program: Service and Volunteering Do Make a Difference.\nDrawing on my international experience, I will share how service and volunteering build needed trust, partnerships, and respect across communities, states, and nations. Social interactions sustain our well being and make successfully managing crises and emergencies possible. I will use the COVID emergency of successfully bringing home 7,000 Volunteers as a case example of trust and respectful partnerships.\nPresenter: Josephine (Jody) Olsen served as Peace Corps Director, 2018 – 2021. In March, 2020, because of the COVID pandemic, she led the successful nine-day evacuation of all 7,000 Peace Corps Volunteers from 61 countries to the US, never done before. \nJody was a Peace Corps Volunteer, Tunisia, 1966-1968, and has served the agency in five other senior positions, including Country Director (Togo), Regional Director (Europe and Asia) and Deputy Director. Her memoir about her decades of Peace Corps service, A Million Miles, My Peace Corps Journey, is available through the U of U Press and Amazon.\nFor a decade, Jody was Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland-Baltimore and director of the Center for Global Engagement. In the 90’s, she was Director of the organization that manages the Fulbright Senior Scholar Program.  Today she co-chairs Women of Peace Corps Legacy (WPCL), and is chair of the Peace Corps Commemorative Foundation Park Advisory Committee and the Univ. of MD, College of Education Board of Visitors, and is on the Maryland Governor’s Commission for Service and Volunteerism.\nJody received a BS from the University of Utah, and a Master’s and PhD from the University of Maryland. Her many awards include University of Maryland President’s Award, University of Utah’s alumni of the year award, and two honorary doctorates. She has also been a Resident Fellow at the IOP Harvard Kennedy School.\n \nWednesday, April 9th, 2025 – 6:00 PM @ Tanoan Country Club\n \n\n \n\n\n
URL:https://wacabq.org/events/75th-program-year-eighth-meeting/
LOCATION:10801 Academy Rd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87111
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