Third Goal

Bio:

I served as an Environmental PCV at the Krkonose National Park and Biosphere Reserve and the Czech National Center for Environmental Education. I spent much of my time teaching environmental education programs (mostly in Czech) to educators and students from schools all over the Czech Republic. As a wildlife management graduate, having never taken an education course, and arriving in-country not knowing one word of Czech, this was a challenge that became the toughest job I ever loved! I extended a third year to develop the GLOBE Program (www.globe.gov) in-country which eventually led to a career change from wildlife conservation to Earth system science educatronal product design.

I still have many friends in the Czech Republic and have returned several times. Many of my colleagues and friends ask me about my Peace Corps experience and I always answer that it was truely a life-changing experience that I will never forget.