Campus Recruiting Office
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 …
by Maddie Campbell RPCV Tanzania 2018-2020 My name is Maddie Campbell, and I served in the Peace Corps as a Secondary School Science Teacher in Tanzania. When I was evacuated, I left behind a project I was invested in, students I cared deeply about, and a community I loved. At the time of evacuation, I …
Abram Krause RPCV Ukraine 2018-2020 Hi, I’m Abram. I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Ukraine before evacuation. I taught English as a foreign language and was working on a USAID grant to establish a service learning club in the Western Ukrainian town where I was serving. Here is my story: These are a few …
by Isabelle Mengesha RPCV Panama 2018-2020 My name is Isabelle Mengesha, and I was serving in the Peace Corps as a Business Advising Agricultural Volunteer in the Sustainable Agriculture Systems program. I lived in a rural community in the mountains of Panama with a population of 1,000 people, most of whom are subsistence farmers. My …
The Peace Corps has announced that for the fourth year in a row, the University of Wisconsin–Madison is No. 1 on the agency’s list of top volunteer-producing colleges and universities in 2020. There are 79 Badgers currently volunteering around the world. Since the agency’s founding in 1961, around 3,369 alumni from University of Wisconsin–Madison have …
The University of Wisconsin–Madison ranked No. 1 among large schools on the Peace Corps 2017 Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges and Universities list. There are 87 Badgers currently volunteering worldwide. This is the third year that UW–Madison has ranked among the top five large universities and colleges. In 2016, UW–Madison ranked No. 2. “Public service is a …