Ethiopia 1966-1969
Advocacy Success Story: I don’t have a specific advocacy success story, but participating in the 2016 National Day of Action gave me the opportunity of meeting, although briefly, with the two Long Island Congressmen. I felt a sense of accomplishment that I was able to advocate for the Peace Corps that day.
I also visited several congressional offices in 2015 when accompanying the 2015 Harris Wofford Award recipient, Berhane Daba of Ethiopia. At that time, I realized how important it is to remind Congress of how much of what the Peace Corps has done and continues to do has lasting, important, global effects.
Fun Fact: has nothing to do with Peace Corps, but did you know that ancestors of horseshoe crabs date back to before the dinosaurs? They are not true crabs, but are more closely related to arachnids (spiders). They are my favorite to find on beaches when I am teaching a seashore program on the bays of the south shore of Long Island! Holding a horseshoe crab is having a living fossil in your hands.( I could go on and on about their habitat, physiology, etc., but I won’t)
