Global Reentry Presents: Jobs with Jodi

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Global Reentry Presents: Jobs with Jodi

The National Peace Corps Association invites you to join Jodi Hammer every week as she answers career questions from the audience while sharing relevant tips and resources. Episodes will feature special guests and panels to discuss specific job search topics, employers, and industries that frequently attract Returned Peace Corps Volunteers. Also watch for occasional non-career special episodes and updates from NPCA. Send questions to careers@rpcv.org.

  1. Baktash Ahadi: Documentary Filmmaker and Human Rights Activist

    06/04/2023

    Baktash Ahadi: Documentary Filmmaker and Human Rights Activist

    Jodi speaks with Baktash Ahadi (RPCV Mozambique), an award-winning documentary filmmaker, motivational speaker, trainer, and human rights activist. Baktash shares how his Peace Corps experience coupled with his cultural life experiences as a refugee has influenced his passion for storytelling. He speaks on how activism and awareness is his foci in his multiple documentaries.Featured Guest:Baktash Ahadi is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, speaker, facilitator, and human rights activist....

    32 min
  2. Juana Bordas: A Conversation on Multicultural & Global Leadership

    28/03/2023

    Juana Bordas: A Conversation on Multicultural & Global Leadership

    In this episode, Jodi speaks with Juana Bordas, RPCV Chile and recognized thought leader, award winning author, and activist in the Latina and multicultural communities. Juana speaks of her own cultural background and her lifetime commitment to bringing a focus to the interconnectedness between the areas of leadership, inclusion and social change. FEATURED GUEST:Juana Bordas is recongized expert in the field of leadership, inclusion, and social change. She served with one of the f...

    42 min
  3. Conversation with Environmental Activist Mike Tidwell, CCAN

    28/02/2023

    Conversation with Environmental Activist Mike Tidwell, CCAN

    In this episode, Jodi speaks with Mike Tidwell, a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer who served in Zaire (now known as Democratic Republic of Congo) about his life changing journey into the environmental advocacy field. Mike is founder and director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN), the oldest and largest grassroots organization dedicated exclusively to fighting for bold and just solutions to climate change in the Chesapeake region of Maryland, DC, and Virginia. &n...

    29 min
  4. Women Leaders in Action: Jennifer Bangoura

    16/12/2022

    Women Leaders in Action: Jennifer Bangoura

    In this episode, Career Services Specialist Jodi Hammer interviews Jennifer Bangoura (Mali, 2008-10), a passionate RPCV, educator, and mother, about her careers abroad in the fields of education, environment, tech, and career services. FEATURED GUEST: Jennifer Bangoura has have nurtured a global community of leaders from Iraq to Morocco and from Mali to Malawi across industries from volunteering to the environment sector, international education, and edtech. I am passionate about l...

    51 min
  5. RPCV Leaders in Action - Carla Brown

    10/11/2022

    RPCV Leaders in Action - Carla Brown

    In this episode, Career Services Specialist Jodi Hammer interviews RPCV Carla Brown (Comoro Islands, 1992–94) about her 25-year international career focused largely on international development, including specialized experience in the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion arena (DEI). FEATURED GUEST: Carla Brown is a RPCV (Comoro Islands, 1992–94) and an accomplished senior manager with over 25 years of experience leading programs that assist poor and vulnerable populations international...

    47 min
  6. Spotlight: Mickey Leland International Hunger Fellowship

    06/11/2022

    Spotlight: Mickey Leland International Hunger Fellowship

    In this episode, Career Services Specialist Jodi Hammer chats with RPCV Laura Henderson (RPCV Togo), Director of the Mickey Leland International Hunger Fellowship offered through the Congressional Hunger Center. Laura shares more about this paid 2-year program which combines grassroots fieldwork in food security challenged countries with policy work at the headquarters level of an assigned counterpart agency, and why RPCVs are especially competitive. She also shares how to apply for thi...

    40 min
  7. RPCV Leaders in Action - Albert (Beto) Whitaker

    21/10/2022

    RPCV Leaders in Action - Albert (Beto) Whitaker

    In this episode, Career Services Specialist Jodi Hammer interviews Albert (Beto) Whitaker (Paraguay, 1979-81), a seasoned professional who has dedicated his 30-year career to advocating for the poor and marginalized, largely in the areas of healthcare equity and access for all. FEATURED GUEST: Albert (Beto) Whitaker is an advocate for the poor and marginalized. He has worked diligently with various local and national stakeholders in addressing social determinants, utilizing data to...

    35 min
  8. A Conversation w/ RPCV Steve Driehaus: From Peace Corps to Member of Congress to International Development Professional

    30/09/2022

    A Conversation w/ RPCV Steve Driehaus: From Peace Corps to Member of Congress to International Development Professional

    This RPCV Leaders in Action episode of the Jobs with Jodi podcast features a conversation with returned volunteer Steve Driehaus about his unique career spanning years as a public servant--representing Ohio at both at the state level and then in Congress--and serving as a Country Director for Peace Corps in Morocco and Eswatini (Swaziland). Don't miss this inspirational conversation. FEATURED GUEST: Steve Driehaus is Resident Senior Director in Iraq for the NationalDemocratic ...

    52 min
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The National Peace Corps Association invites you to join Jodi Hammer every week as she answers career questions from the audience while sharing relevant tips and resources. Episodes will feature special guests and panels to discuss specific job search topics, employers, and industries that frequently attract Returned Peace Corps Volunteers. Also watch for occasional non-career special episodes and updates from NPCA. Send questions to careers@rpcv.org.

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    National Peace Corps Association
  • Años de actividad
    2020 - 2023
  • Episodios
    85
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