Join Dartmouth Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs) for a discussion on how their service supported their host countries and shaped their life trajectories in unexpected ways. The panelists include Russell Andrews ’68, who served with the Peace Corps starting in 1967 in Palau; Elizabeth (Liz) McClintock ’86, a Dickey Center board member and Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco from ’88-’92; Olga Piontkowski, who also served in Morocco but during the digital age (2007-2009); and Taniya Arora, who served in South Africa from 2018 to 2020.
Joining online to answer further questions will be Peter Hofman and Ted Kloth, both Dartmouth ‘68s, who joined PC around 1970 and served in Peru and South Korea respectively, along with Bill Bridgeford, who served in Macedonia starting in 2016, and has been Dartmouth’s regional recruiter for the last several years.

Coming out of university, each panelist had clear post-Peace Corps career plans, but two years of hands-on experience abroad reshaped their paths – some in smaller ways, others quite profoundly. Russell became a neurosurgeon, Ted a career diplomat, Peter took a dramatically different direction, Liz is an Adjunct Professor of International Negotiations and runs a small conflict resolution NGO, Taniya an ophthalmic assistant, and Olga currently works at the NARM Training Institute, an organization focused on addressing complex and developmental trauma.