Peace Corps - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Peace Corps Index / Organizations Transcripts Noah McQueen ...to do. I was juggling looking at the Peace Corps , I was juggling Microsoft, I wa... ...were trying to send me to Ukraine in Peace Corps . So [laughter] I had to really b... ...Eh. Then I talked to him about the Peace Corps and Microsoft, and then didn't d... Jon Carson ...for 2004, but I decided to join the Peace Corps —something I'd wanted to do for a lon... ...campaigns when I got back from the Peace Corps . I got back in the spring of 2006... ...my wife right before I went to the Peace Corps . She actually came down and lived i... ...You know, when I got back from the Peace Corps , I said I'm going to get into clea... ...it from a distance while I was in the Peace Corps , you could see the energy there. Bu... ...time. I want to go back a bit to the Peace Corps and to the notion I—was that in th... ...about—I mean, this is obviously Peace Corps super lite, but in your mind, were yo... ...campaign, I was pretty fresh off the Peace Corps . I was only, at that point, about nin... ...Actually, the number one thing that my Peace Corps experience influenced me on this i... ...see that is how it intersected with my Peace Corps experience. But I did think this woul... ...cycles and in between going to the Peace Corps —getting a master's degree in geograph... Show more... Tina Tchen ...brainstorm that, Oh, we could use the Peace Corps . The Peace Corps has––I forget th... ...Oh, we could use the Peace Corps. The Peace Corps has––I forget the number now––thousand... ...the country. And at the time, our Peace Corps director was this fabulous woman whos... ...great woman who was director of the Peace Corps . And we brought her and her team ove... ...fact that, actually, a third of their Peace Corps volunteers actually are already in th... ...space, so that kind of helps. But all Peace Corps volunteers also get the opportunity t... ...had a fund. They have a fund in the Peace Corps to receive individual contributions... ...are of this, this piece of perhaps the Peace Corps piece is coming together, I'm findin... ...as an effort to promote this. So the Peace Corps fund, we wound up raising three millio... ...to fund these projects locally for the Peace Corps volunteers to do. And I remember i... ...Radelet, that was the head of the Peace Corps —that the Peace Corps just unsolicite... ...the head of the Peace Corps—that the Peace Corps just unsolicited got a letter from ... ...And then we had a story page on the Peace Corps , where people could see the stories... ...you could see the stories. We got the Peace Corps people taking their own photos an... ...other countries who were a part of the Peace Corps program who beamed into that and wer... ...there was three million dollars in the Peace Corps fund. There was three years' worth o... ...as our initiatives. And in the Peace Corps , we left behind three million in fund... ...funds that had been raised within the Peace Corps Fund that was supporting individua... ...it was kind of easy. We had the Peace Corps people to do it. It was fairl... Show more... Related Topics go to the Healthcare Healthcare go to the Asia Rebalance Asia Rebalance go to the Education Education go to the Black Politics Black Politics go to the Science Science