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This month: SEAPAX member spotlight, Congressional meetings, our Mentorship Program, and upcoming Book Club
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Hi SEAPAX - we had a blast at last month's Story Slam and hope you did too. Read on for this month's updates, and happy Spring!
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Member Spotlight - Jonathan Green
What happens when one RPCV memoirist sits down (virtually) to interview another? Another great story, of course! In this month’s Member Spotlight, long-standing SEAPAX member Jonathan Green shares highlights of his career with guest columnist, Susan Greisen. Susan writes, “In every sentence of my interview, Jonathan’s words echoed commitment… One of his proudest experiences was seeing a reduction in malaria morbidity and mortality” as a result of his efforts as a Malaria Control Volunteer (Thailand, 1973-1975). Jonathan later served as HIV Outreach Volunteer in South Africa (2015-2017), where he cleverly leveraged the popularity of his village’s pool tournament to spread HIV/AIDS awareness. He then returned to malaria control as a Response Volunteer in Liberia (2017-2018).
Click below to read the full story about Jonathan, his 2019 memoir, Fighting Malaria on the River Kwai, and his inspiring Peace Corps service spanning 45 years.
Read the full spotlight »
Many thanks to Susan E. Greisen, RPCV Liberia, 1971-73 and Tonga, 73-74, the author of In Search of the Pink Flamingos, for this spotlight.
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Advocacy
April will be a busy time for the SEAPAX Advocacy Team. We had our first congressional meeting with Rep. Strickland’s office last week in support of upcoming Peace Corps-related legislation and are planning three more in the coming weeks. If you would like to get involved in one of these meetings, we are still looking for a few more RPCVs who live in the following districts to join!
District 3 (Rep. Herrera-Beutler); District 4 (Rep. Newhouse); District 8 (Rep. Schrier).
Email Beth for more information.
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Mentorship Program
SEAPAX's Mentorship Program is open to newly returned PCVs AND not-so-newly returned PCVs! How we can offer support:
- Finding housing
- Job/career/professional development
- Social networking events
- Reintegration and readjustment
- Graduate school
- Service/volunteer opportunities
- Navigating Seattle
- Talking about the Peace Corps experience
If you are interested in participating as a mentee, sign up here.
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Book Club |
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Join us for April's virtual book club meeting!
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
Sunday, April 11
3 pm
Join on Google Meet here.
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Welcome to our newest SEAPAX members who joined in February!
- Hillary Holman, Albania 2020
- Diana King, Kenya 1985-1987
- Noah Sorscher, Guatemala 2020
- Cathy Reidy Liermann, Bolivia 1996-1998
- Lana Sotherland, Morocco 2018-2020
- Jonathan Sotherland, Morocco 2018-2020
- Paulette Thompson, Morocco 1986-1988
- Julie Congdon
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SEAPAX is a registered 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Your donations are tax-deductible and allow our entirely volunteer-run organization to cover basic expenses.
Donate to SEAPAX
And, if you do any shopping on Amazon: remember to set your Amazon Smile charity to SEAPAX and make sure to use smile.amazon.com each time you make a purchase. Thank you for your support!
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