UVA Alum turned PCV's Do It Big!

Two national media features on UVA friends and their experience with Peace Corps!

Jia, a sorority sister of mine and great source of advice on the challenges of Peace Corps- op-ed featured in the NY Times discussing her experience with Peace Corps in Kyrgyzstan and her stance on Peace Corps' response to Volunteer victims of assault and rape

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/14/opinion/14tolentino.html

Jia writes more on the topic on her blog: http://bestlittlebookshelf.wordpress.com/ 

Katie Pollack, just sworn in as Peace Corps Volunteer in Senegal.  Amazingly smart friend of mine and classmate in Research Ethics at UVA. 


Katie is blogging here: http://kpinthepc.blogspot.com/

Very proud of both of my friends! They are both very articulate and witty people, so I encourage you to check out their blogs.