Archive for the ‘ Inclusion ’ Category
Diversity among Peace Corps Volunteer groups serving overseas is crucial to the success of the entire program — for many reasons. Peace Corps promotes person-to-person diplomacy, and aims to increase understanding among people of other countries about the United States. Without recruiting Volunteers who reflect the rich array of cultural and ethnic and racial heritages [ READ MORE ]
Contributed by Elizabeth Tunkle, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, Zambia and Lesotho. When you join the Peace Corps, many people ask you why. I never had a very good answer. But the truth is something way down deep inside of me told me that is what I needed to do and I listened. I really had [ READ MORE ]
June is Pride Month, so The New Service podcast from Idealist.org is taking a closer look at the experience of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals serving in Peace Corps and AmeriCorps. Today's guests are lesbian and gay former service corps participants: Chad Jeremy, a former AmeriCorps NCCC corps member, currently a [ READ MORE ]
A Pride Month interview. A recently-Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, and the first known transgender person to serve, writes about his experiences—first on the website for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Returned Peace Corps Volunteer group (also known as the LGBT RPCVs), and now in an interview with my intern Sara Lozito and me. The interview here is timed to appear on the same day as our podcast interview for Pride Month. The RPCV has chosen to remain anonymous for security [ READ MORE ]
Below is the transcript of our June podcast, "Lesbian and Gay Perspectives in AmeriCorps and Peace Corps." Huge thanks to podcast intern Sara Lozito, an AmeriCorps member, for work in creating the transcript. Amy: Welcome to the Idealist podcast. I'm Amy Potthast and this is the The New Service Podcast from Idealist.org – moving people from good intentions to action. June is Pride Month, so The New Service podcast is taking a closer look at the experience of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals serving in Peace Corps and AmeriCorps[ READ MORE ]
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