The Campus Peace Corps Recruiter, Hannah Bennett, recently shared her experiences serving in Ecuador in the early 2000s on the UW-Madison International Safety and Security travel-focused podcast, Badgers Abroad. You can listen to it and other episodes here.
Here’s the description of the episode with related links:
In today’s episode, we are talking about Ecuador and the Peace Corps with Hannah Bennett, the UW-Madison Peace Corps Representative. Hannah served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the agriculture sector in Ecuador from 2004-2006. After that, she worked as a farmer in southern Minnesota and in management at a food co-op in Minneapolis. She earned an MFA in Design Studies from the School of Human Ecology at UW-Madison in 2017 and has been working as an independent artist and Art Department Lecturer at UW-Madison. She is originally from central Kansas and has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Kansas.
UW-Madison students interested in Peace Corps can contact Hannah at peacecorps@international.wisc.edu.
References and resources from the podcast are listed below:
- Art Show Featuring Hannah’s Peace Corp Related Art
- Hannah’s Website Featuring Her Art
- Peace Corps Website
- Peace Corps Volunteer Openings
- Peace Corps at UW-Madison Website
- Website for the Area of Ecuador where Hannah Served in the Peace Corps
- U.S. Department of State Ecuador Travel Advisory
- OSAC Ecuador Country Security Report
- UW-Madison Ecuador Study Abroad Programs