2. Welcome!
What is Success in Service?
Peace Corps Prep
Happiness in Paraguay
Paul Duncan, Speaker One
Kris Irwin, Speaker Two
Panel Discussion Q&A
Snacks and Socializing
3. 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
4. What is Success in Service?
Highlighting Life After Peace Corps
Skills gained from service
Opportunities for education
Professional growth
5. Peace Corps Prep
Designed 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
7. Paul Duncan
Associate 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
8. Kris Irwin
Senior 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
9. Panel Members
Stephen 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.
10. Panel Members
Debbie 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
11. Panel Members
Tara 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
12. Panel Members
Aaron 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
