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U.S. international development program since 1961
The Peace Corps is an independent agency and program of the United States government that trains and deploys volunteers to communities in partner countries
Peace_Corps
Notable former Peace Corps volunteers, by profession
This is a list of notable people who have served as volunteers in the Peace Corps. Countries and dates of service are included where they are stated by
List of Peace Corps volunteers
List_of_Peace_Corps_volunteers
The Peace Corps Commemorative is a proposed national commemorative work in Washington, D.C. honoring the historic founding of the Peace Corps and the
Peace_Corps_Commemorative
American politician diplomat
14, 2007, the Peace Corps announced its strong disagreement with the decision of Retzer to withdraw the authorization for Peace Corps Country Director
Michael_Retzer
American economist (1913–1969)
had also advised President John F. Kennedy on the foundation of the Peace Corps. Kennedy was the first to announce the idea for such an organization
Max_Millikan
American writer, farmer, and Peace Corps volunteer
(1915–1991), known as Moritz Thomsen, was an American writer, farmer and Peace Corps volunteer. He worked and wrote in the small town of Rio Verde, Ecuador
Moritz_Thomsen
North American non-profit organisation
National Peace Corps Association (NPCA) is a North American nonprofit organization supporting the Peace Corps Agency community. Founded in 1979, the NPCA
National Peace Corps Association
National_Peace_Corps_Association
American psychiatrist, academic, and health-care administrator
administrator. He served as the first Chief Psychiatrist of the United States Peace Corps, Administrator of the Health Services and Mental Health Administration
Joseph_T._English
American nurse, mother of Jimmy Carter (1898–1983)
States from 1977 to 1981. She was also known for her contributions as a Peace Corps volunteer in India and for writing two books during her son’s presidency
Lillian_Gordy_Carter
American politician (born 1975)
science. After graduating from Duke University, Carter served in the Peace Corps stationed in South Africa. In doing so he followed the example of his
Jason_Carter_(politician)
Military unit size designation
Corps may also be a generic term for a non-military organization, such as the US Peace Corps and European Solidarity Corps. In many armies, a corps is
Corps
City in Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, Morocco
103,850 inhabitants. Tiflet was served by workers of the United States Peace Corps until the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. The workers had been assisting local
Tiflet
American journalist (1934–2025)
organization. The Peace Corps Act was signed by President Kennedy on September 22, 1961. In Sarge, Scott Stossel reports that "Peace Corps legend has it that
Bill_Moyers
1968 song by The Mothers of Invention
"Who Needs the Peace Corps?" is a rock and roll song written by American musician Frank Zappa and featured as the second track on the 1968 album We're
Who_Needs_the_Peace_Corps?
CSURF research Albertson oversaw was used in setting up the Peace Corps. The Peace Corps remained true to the original vision in Albertson's opinion.
Maurice_L._Albertson
American journalist (born 1943)
Gamma sorority. Following her graduation from college, she served in the Peace Corps in Medellín, Colombia, from 1964 to 1966. Orth later earned a master's
Maureen_Orth
1958 political novel by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer
diplomatic corps in Southeast Asia. The book caused a sensation in diplomatic circles and had major political implications. The Peace Corps was established
The_Ugly_American
Ronald A. Tschetter (born October 4, 1941) was the 17th Director of the Peace Corps. Tschetter earned a bachelor's degree from Bethel University in psychology
Ron_Tschetter
American Peace Corps director (1925–2012)
O'Donnell (June 9, 1925 – February 29, 2012) was the fourth director of Peace Corps, serving from July 1, 1971 to September 30, 1972. O'Donnell was born
Kevin_O'Donnell_(Peace_Corps)
Director of the US Peace Corps (1934–2020)
the third Director of the United States Peace Corps succeeding Jack Vaughn. Blatchford was appointed Peace Corps Director in 1969 by President Richard Nixon
Joseph_Blatchford
American government official
Postal Service, United States Agency for International Development, Peace Corps, and the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Currie's
Betty_Currie
American film director (born 1944)
a Peace Corps volunteer in Bolivia, where he started using Super 8 film in his spare time. The camera was purchased for him by fellow Peace Corps volunteer
Taylor_Hackford
2001 film by Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly
is still leaving on her Peace Corps mission, but Hal says he is coming with her, having just been sworn into the Peace Corps by Ralph's friend Li'iBoy
Shallow_Hal
American diplomat (born 1952)
economics in 1974. Hill was a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon from 1974 to 1976. Hill credits his work with the Peace Corps for teaching him his first
Christopher_R._Hill
exercised general oversight over the activities and programs of the Peace Corps and all U.S. foreign policy, programs and international cooperative efforts
United_States_Senate_Foreign_Relations_Subcommittee_on_Western_Hemisphere_and_Global_Narcotics_Affairs
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915–2011)
Shriver was the driving force behind the creation of the Peace Corps, and founded the Job Corps, Head Start, VISTA, Upward Bound, and other programs as
Sargent_Shriver
United States intelligence officer and Soviet defector (1951–2002)
CIA case officer who defected to the Soviet Union. Howard served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bucaramanga, Colombia. There he met Mary Cedarleaf in 1973
Edward_Lee_Howard
American travel writer and novelist (born 1941)
in 1963. After finishing his university education, Theroux joined the Peace Corps in 1963 as a teacher in Malawi. Theroux helped a political opponent of
Paul_Theroux
American political family
their brother-in-law Sargent Shriver served as director of the new Peace Corps, and Ted became the U.S. Senator from Massachusetts until his death in
Kennedy_family
Independent agency of the US government
programs include: AmeriCorps VISTA, or Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), was founded in 1965 as a domestic version of the Peace Corps. The program was
AmeriCorps
American geologist and science educator (born 1942)
method of recovering metals from waste water. Robbins served in the Peace Corps in Tanzania from 1964 to 1966, where she was the first female field geologist
Eleanora_Robbins
US government programs
the then current heads of state formerly participated in the IVLP. The Peace Corps is a cultural exchange program run by the United States government. Founded
United States cultural exchange programs
United_States_cultural_exchange_programs
Hand-dug water well
By 2007 the U.S. Peace Corps had been promoting use of Dutch bricks to build soak pits and wells for many years. The Peace Corps uses the term "Dutch
Brick-lined_well
American LGBT and women's rights activist
was recruited by the Peace Corps to direct a training program in Togo. There she met Diane Jones, another American Peace Corps volunteer. She supported
Roma_Guy
American diplomat (1920–2012)
second director of the United States Peace Corps, succeeding Sargent Shriver. Vaughn was appointed Peace Corps director in 1966 by President Lyndon Johnson
Jack_H._Vaughn
American musician and film director
College Bulletin in 1963, he reflected on his Peace Corps experience: "This to me is the meaning of the Peace Corps as a new frontier. It is the call to go
David_Schickele
American anti-war activist, politician, and government official (born 1943)
within ACTION The peace corps would refocus on "basic human needs." After a five-month search for a new director of the peace corps, in which Brown offered
Sam_Brown_(activist)
collaborates with the Peace Corps to create the Global Health Service Partnership (GHSP). This program has established the first "Peace Corps for doctors and
Seed_Global_Health
American inventor and engineer
Smith returned to MIT after the Peace Corps to get her master's degree in mechanical engineering. Smith joined the Peace Corps serving four years as a volunteer
Amy_B._Smith
American sculptor (1941–2025)
A. in 1964. At age 22, he lived in India for two years while in the Peace Corps. He said about the time: it "heightened my sense of the hugeness and
Joel_Shapiro
American writer
World: The Peace Corps Story, editor and contributor, Peace Corps/USGPO, 1996 Peace Corps: The Great Adventure, editor and contributor, Peace Corps/USGPO,
John_Coyne_(writer)
President of the United States from 1961 to 1963
first nuclear weapons treaty. He presided over the establishment of the Peace Corps, Alliance for Progress with Latin America, and the continuation of the
John_F._Kennedy
Global nonprofit humanitarian organization focused on ending child poverty
International has worked with the U.S. Peace Corps in a number of countries. The organization has trained Peace Corps volunteers in Guatemala, and has worked
Children_International
American political advisor
defining moment and said his experience in the Peace Corps helped him learn how to adapt. "When I was a Peace Corps volunteer, it was just a different culture
M._Peter_McPherson
American social entrepreneur
for Global Operations at Peace Corps. Before government service, Beale was the founder and chief executive officer of Atlas Corps, a leadership development
Scott_Beale
American entrepreneur and education philanthropist (born 1960)
instead to pursue service in the Peace Corps "out of a combination of service and adventure". With the Peace Corps, he taught math at a high school of
Reed_Hastings
Lawyer, former director of the US Peace Corps
School Institute of Politics from 1995 to 1999 and as the director of the Peace Corps. He is the longest-serving president in the history of HWS, serving from
Mark_Gearan
US national service program to alleviate poverty
Johnson's Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 as the domestic version of the Peace Corps. Initially, the program increased employment opportunities for conscientious
AmeriCorps_VISTA
American filmmaker
Bennington College before joining the Peace Corps. Mooser began his career as a humanitarian aid worker in the Peace Corps in West Africa. In 2010 following
Bryn_Mooser
American diplomat (1936–1996)
Miller Ruppe (January 3, 1936 – August 6, 1996) was a Director of the Peace Corps and U.S. Ambassador to Norway. She was the wife of United States House
Loret_Miller_Ruppe
1998 American film
girlfriend) had married and now teach in foreign nations as part of the Peace Corps. It is also noted that Shale and Thomasson had served in the Army, as
The Substitute 2: School's Out
The_Substitute_2:_School's_Out
International award
same year in Washington D.C. as the "World Peace Corps Mission, World Peace Corp Academy and World Peace Prize Awarding Council, Inc.," a non-profit
World_Peace_Prize
American investigative journalist (born 1948)
2011, Ross and Anna Schecter reported on the murder of a 24-year-old Peace Corps volunteer in West Africa. Ross and Schecter received the 2011 George
Brian_Ross_(journalist)
American writer (1941–1989)
then, under a short-lived Peace Corps program that recruited married couples with children.) Roberta Worrick's Peace Corps job was, she said, to be "a
Maria_Thomas
Bilateral relations
Control and Prevention, Department of Treasury, Department of Defense, and Peace Corps[citation needed]. The majority of U.S. assistance is provided through
United States–Zambia relations
United_States–Zambia_relations
Discipline of engineering addressing humanitarian needs
Peace Corps service". www.peacecorps.gov. Retrieved 2026-04-27. Peace Corps (U.S.) (1966-01-01). "Civil Engineers Needed For Challenging Peace Corps Assignments
Humanitarian_engineering
President of Somalia from 1969 to 1991
The Toughest Peace Corps Job: Letters from Somalia. Inkwater Press. p. 240. B Henze, Paul (2016). The Horn of Africa From War to Peace. Palgrave Macmillan
Siad_Barre
15th director of the Peace Corps (1999–2001)
Mark Lewis Schneider (born 1941) served as the 15th director of the Peace Corps (1999–2001). Schneider grew up in Antioch, California, where he attended
Mark_L._Schneider
Musical
Broadway in 1963 with uncredited contributions by Stephen Sondheim. A Peace Corps volunteer in newly independent Nigeria, Marjorie Michelmore, caused a
Hot_Spot_(musical)
American mountain climber (1913–2009)
high-altitude investigator, inventor, author, film-maker, and former Peace Corps administrator. He made two important and celebrated attempts to climb
Charles_Snead_Houston
Vice President of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007
Peace Corps in 2011, the National Peace Corps Association (NPCA) – an independent 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organisation, separate from the Peace Corps,
Atiku_Abubakar
community. Peace Corps Fellows Begin New Programs in Georgia, Missouri and California Archived 2007-06-10 at the Wayback Machine at Peace Corps L.P. Cookingham
L.P. Cookingham Institute of Urban Affairs
L.P._Cookingham_Institute_of_Urban_Affairs
American politician (1941–1997)
Law School and the Kennedy School of Government. After working for the Peace Corps and as an aide to Congressman F. Bradford Morse, Tsongas successively
Paul_Tsongas
Place in West, Cameroon
8 people would ride in a 4-person sedan from one to two decades ago. Peace Corps Cameroon had a training center in Batié in the 1980s, and has had a series
Batié,_Cameroon
single overseas volunteer system. The program is similar to the American Peace Corps program. Since its establishment in 1990, the Korea Overseas Volunteers
World_Friends_Korea
American journalist (1955–2018)
"Casualties of Peace," published in 2003. The House Committee on International Relations passed of a bill to protect the safety of Peace Corps volunteers
Russell_Carollo
American government official
Carol Spahn is an American executive who served as director of the Peace Corps from 2022 to 2025. Spahn earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Catholic
Carol_Spahn
the Peace Corps and served as a volunteer in Morocco until 1984. Later in 2011, after the death of Sargent Shriver, the founder of the Peace Corps, Laugharn
Peter_Laugharn
American journalist and author (1941–2020)
City Police Department. He was an Edgar Award winner and worked as a Peace Corps teacher in Tanzania in the early and mid-1960s. He was also the author
Leonard_Levitt
American politician (born 1966)
Administration (MPA) from Indiana University Bloomington in 1995. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal where he worked with village groups and local schools
Steve_Driehaus
Norwegian governmental and volunteering body
as Fredskorpset (meaning the Peace Corps in Norwegian) in 1963, based on ideas of John F. Kennedy's American Peace Corps. It was relaunched in 2000 to
Norec
American attorney and government official
an American government official who served as deputy director of the Peace Corps from 2023 to 2025. White earned a bachelor of science and army commission
David_E._White_Jr.
American journalist
journalist. She disappeared on April 8, 2007, while working as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines and discovered on April 18 in a shallow
Julia_Campbell_(journalist)
Beauty pageant edition
Very First Time". HuffPost UK. Retrieved 27 October 2020. Peace Corps--1961-1981. Peace Corps--1961-1981: For 20 Years, Making a World of Difference: Press
Miss_World_1980
for Lutheran Social Services of New England, as a consultant for the Peace Corps in Colombia and Chile and for VISTA on Navajo reservations in the US
Peter_L._Pond
Nixon administration effort to consolidate volunteer services
Grandparents and Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) programs; The Peace Corps, the international volunteer programs represented established in the
ACTION (U.S. government agency)
ACTION_(U.S._government_agency)
American political scientist (born 1943)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1974. Murray left for the Peace Corps in Thailand in 1965, staying abroad for six years. At the beginning of
Charles Murray (political scientist)
Charles_Murray_(political_scientist)
American politician (1939–2000)
of the Republican Party, he previously served as the director of the Peace Corps from 1989 to 1991 under President George H. W. Bush. Coverdell was born
Paul_Coverdell
American educational organization
books to Peace Corps Volunteers. In 1992, IBP was named "A Partner for Peace" by the US Peace Corps. International Book Project website Peace Corps website
International_Book_Project
opportunities to serve in federal programs, such as AmeriCorps, Peace Corps, and Senior Corps, or to find local service opportunities by zip code and interest
USA_Freedom_Corps
U.S. presidential administration from 1961 to 1963
passed into law as the Revenue Act of 1964. Kennedy also established the Peace Corps and promised to land an American on the Moon and return him safely to
Presidency_of_John_F._Kennedy
American astronaut, doctor and engineer (born 1956)
medical degree from Cornell University. Jemison served as a doctor for the Peace Corps in Liberia and Sierra Leone from 1983 until 1985 and worked as a general
Mae_Jemison
American politician
politician. He is a member of the Democratic Party. After serving in the Peace Corps, Celeste, the brother of former Ohio governor and U.S. ambassador Dick
Ted_Celeste
American journalist and communications executive
Student, and also its magazine supplement. DeWitt applied to join the Peace Corps in 1965. Required to spend a summer in preparation, following her Miami
Karen_DeWitt
American political advisor (born 1969/1970)
Democratic National Convention, the U.S. Global Leadership Campaign, and the Peace Corps. Medina has been a board member of the Millennium March on Washington
David Medina (political advisor)
David_Medina_(political_advisor)
1969 Bolivian film
community receiving medical care from the Peace Corps-like United States-backed agency Cuerpo del Progreso ("Progress Corps") which is secretly sterilising local
Blood_of_the_Condor
American diplomat (born 1955)
Prior to that, he was the first person of Hispanic ancestry to head the Peace Corps. Born in Carrizo Springs, Texas, Vasquez is a Mexican-American and the
Gaddi_Vasquez
1985 film by Nicholas Meyer
angry creditors by trading places with his college roommate Kent, on a Peace Corps flight to Thailand. On the plane, he meets Washington State graduate
Volunteers_(1985_film)
American historian and author (born 1956)
Brazil. Cobbs' second book is based on the people and politics behind the Peace Corps, and discusses themes of American idealism at work during the difficult
Elizabeth_Cobbs
Victorian mansion in Newport, Rhode Island
Intelligence Agency. Additionally, Kennedy signed Public Law 87-293, the Peace Corps Act of 1961. The main house remained in the Auchincloss family until
Hammersmith_Farm
American actor, comedian and director (born 1968)
Uganda to American parents. His father, Delano Lewis, served as the U.S. Peace Corps' associate director and country director for Nigeria and Uganda at the
Phill_Lewis
Provincial public university in Guiyang, Guizhou, China
(Guizhou University), Guizhou University began hosting United States Peace Corps Volunteers. The volunteers teach at both the undergraduate and graduate
Guizhou_University
Nigerian businessman
Ameh Ojonye Akoh (born 1973) is the founder and National Commandant of Peace Corps of Nigeria. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in sociology from
Dickson_Akoh
American businesswoman and government official (born 1953)
Secretary of Transportation (1989–1991). She served as director of the Peace Corps from 1991 to 1992 and as president of the United Way of America from
Elaine_Chao
American fiction writer and professor (1953–2025)
University. He lived in Warren, New Hampshire. In his youth, Monninger was a Peace Corps volunteer. He was twice a recipient of National Endowment for the Arts
Joseph_Monninger
American politician (1952–2025)
following a battle with cancer. "Notable former Peace Corps Volunteers in Government". United States Peace Corps. Archived from the original on September 29
Matthew Patrick (American politician)
Matthew_Patrick_(American_politician)
model to follow, and created the Alliance for Progress, the Peace Corps, Food for Peace, and the Agency for International Development (AID). After the
Foreign policy of the Kennedy administration
Foreign_policy_of_the_Kennedy_administration
American politician (1926–2019)
Rights. Wofford was instrumental in the formation of the Peace Corps and was the Peace Corps' special representative to Africa and director of operations
Harris_Wofford
Town in Northern Cape, South Africa
of the more noted Peace Corps outposts in the northern regions of the country. From 2007 to 2009, it was home to former Peace Corps volunteer and published
Kuruman
Education program
accused the Peace Corps volunteers of being CIA agents, and they had to leave the country. Some of these volunteers entered the Teacher Corps. Originally
Teacher_Corps
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