Welcome! What is Success in Service?

Peace Corps Prep Happiness in Paraguay

Paul Duncan, Speaker OneKris Irwin, Speaker TwoPanel Discussion Q&ASnacks and Socializing

What is Success in Service?

“I had a great experience because I learned so much about myself and what I want out of life.”

-Aaron Joslin, UGA Recruiter

What is Success in Service?

Highlighting Life After Peace Corps

Skills gained from service

Opportunities for education

Professional growth

Peace Corps PrepDesigned to give students the skills and qualifications needed to

make a greater global impact

Promotes skills in 4 key areas identified by the Peace Corps as essential for future volunteers

Requirements to get the certificate: 50 hours field experience in the community

Course work to build:

foreign language skills

Intercultural competence

Diversity awareness

Professional leadership through workshops and other opportunities

Happiness in Paraguay

Paul DuncanAssociate Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies at

UGA

From 1987-89, Duncan served as a Natural Resource Conservation program volunteer in Guatemala

From 1996-97, Duncan returned to serve as a Natural Resource Conservation program trainee in Guatemala

Combined with Public Health volunteer forces to kick start a sanitation campaign in Guatemala

Kris IrwinSenior Public Service Associate at the Warnell School of Forestry and

Natural Resources at UGA

From 1985-87, Irwin served as an Agroforestry volunteer in the Philippines

Most successful project was securing a grant from the USAID to purchase construction equipment for a potable water project ; provided San Jose with 28 clean water flowing faucets

Member of the UGA Peace Corps Recruiting Advisory Board and is the Coordinator of the Warnell Peace Corps Masters International Program

Serves as a mentor to student in the Warnell School interested in joining the Peace Corps

Panel MembersStephen Dorage

From 1978-82, Dorage volunteered in Monreal, Philippines

Service included health and nutrition programs, community organization and development, human resources, and technology development

Recently retired from the Regional Coordinator position that implemented over 80 different healthcare systems in the southeastern U.S.

Currently following a passion of teaching T’ai Chi and Qigong in the U.S.

Panel MembersDebbie Manget

UGA graduate with a Bachelor’s Degree in Home Economics

From 1978-1979, Debbie Manget volunteered in St.Lucia as a teacher of Home Economics

From 1980-1982, Magnet worked in Social Services

Got her Master’s Degree in Library Sciences from Emory University in 1987

Recently retired from position as Director of the Conyers-Rockdale Library System

Panel MembersTara Crawford

Served in St. Thomas, Jamaica as a Programs Coordinator for a parish-based environmental NGO

Earned her MA degree from Brown University in Environmental Studies

Master’s thesis investigated how social, ecological, and institutional contexts interact with what ecosystem-based management is in practice.

Her dissertation research is focused on the individuality of sea lions and its influence on wildlife management

Panel MembersAaron Joslin

Peace Corps UGA campus recruiter

PhD candidate studying biogeochemistry and crop tree productivity in tropical agroforestry of Brazil

From 2000-2002, Aaron served in Comarapa, Santa Cruz, Bolivia

Aspires to work in international forestry and/or agricultural conservation with smallholding farmers

Panel Discussion Q&A

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