4 Reasons You Shouldn’t Join the Peace Corps (and 1 You Should)
If you’re considering joining the Peace Corps, you probably have grand visions of backpacking across Africa or helping beautiful little children learn English. And while you will get to do some pretty...
View ArticleStranger in a Strange Land: Being a Foreign Woman in a Developing Country
Before I left America to spend three years in rural Azerbaijan as a Peace Corps volunteer, I spoke with a woman who had worked in several Middle Eastern countries. She told me, “There are three...
View ArticleLife After the Peace Corps: How to Adjust When You’re Back Home
Whenever someone tells me how brave I was to join the Peace Corps, I always pause for a moment. Yes, it was a challenging experience, but leaving all my friends and family wasn’t the hardest part....
View Article5 Ways to Be More Creative (in a Non-Creative Job)
I’m a research analyst, so the most creative I typically get in my day-to-day work is, well, choosing a color scheme in PowerPoint. So, you can imagine my surprise when, the night before a big...
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