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Global Reentry Presents: Jobs with Jodi

National Peace Corps Association

85 episodes

9 months ago

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....

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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....

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Global Reentry Presents: Jobs with Jodi

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....

2 years ago

31 minutes

Global Reentry Presents: Jobs with Jodi

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...

2 years ago

42 minutes

Global Reentry Presents: Jobs with Jodi

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...

2 years ago

29 minutes

Global Reentry Presents: Jobs with Jodi

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...

2 years ago

51 minutes

Global Reentry Presents: Jobs with Jodi

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...

2 years ago

46 minutes

Global Reentry Presents: Jobs with Jodi

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...

3 years ago

40 minutes

Global Reentry Presents: Jobs with Jodi

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...

3 years ago

34 minutes

Global Reentry Presents: Jobs with Jodi

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 ...

3 years ago

51 minutes

Global Reentry Presents: Jobs with Jodi

State Department’s English Language Fellow Program: Peacebuilding through Teaching ESL

This Jobs with Jodi Podcast episode explores the peace-building initiative of the State Department's English Language Fellow Program. Career Services Specialist Jodi Hammer chats with Outreach Coordinator, Andrew Shannon, and RPCV Robbieana Leung (Philippines 2016-18), who tell us about their commitment to peace-building through ESL. They offer insight into another way for RPCVs to maintain their dedication to peace-building across cultures. FEATURED GUESTS: Andrew ...

3 years ago

36 minutes

Global Reentry Presents: Jobs with Jodi

Meet the New NPCA Board Chair, John Lee Evans

In this Jobs with Jodi Podcast episode, Career Services Specialist Jodi Hammer chats with RPCV and NPCA's new board chair, John Lee Evans, who shares his own experiences as well as his vision for NPCA. FEATURED GUEST:John Lee Evans, NPCA's newly elected Board Chair, grew up in the Pacific Northwest and attended the University of Madrid in Spain as an undergraduate for one year. He served in the Peace Corps in Honduras 1975–78, where he worked with rural schoolteachers and agricultu...

3 years ago

35 minutes

Global Reentry Presents: Jobs with Jodi

RPCV Leaders in Action - Lisa Flores

In this Jobs with Jodi Podcast episode, Career Services Specialist Jodi Hammer chats with Lisa Flores (Ecuador, 1994-96), a self-proclaimed 'non profit girl at heart who has fallen into some wonderful opportunities to serve."Lisa shares pearls of wisdom she has learned from her own career trajectory which has been imbedded in service and giving back. FEATURED GUEST: Lisa Flores is the granddaughter of migrant laborers, and she is the first in her family to graduate from ...

3 years ago

54 minutes

Global Reentry Presents: Jobs with Jodi

Careers in Doing Good - A Lifetime of Service

This Jobs with Jodi Podcast episode explores the commitment to service that has propelled many RPCVs to dedicate their lives and careers to making a difference and doing good in the world. Career Services Specialist Jodi Hammer chats with RPCVs Thomas Hill (Russia 2000–02) and Cara George (Guatemala 2009–11), who share their ongoing journey of working to better the world in everything they do. They offer tips and advice as well as speak to areas most in need of assistance at this time.&n...

3 years ago

50 minutes

Global Reentry Presents: Jobs with Jodi

RPCVs Make the Best Foreign Service Officers! A Chat with State Department Officials

In this episode, Jodi is joined by two special guests from the State Department: George Sibley, Diplomat-in-Residence and Jason Tolub, Deputy Director of Talent Acquisition, who will be talking about the path to Foreign Service. They outline and help make sense of the many steps involved in becoming a Foreign Service Officer and share why they feel RPCVs make the best Foreign Service Officers.....COMPLETE THISFEATURED GUESTS:George Sibley is the Diplomat-in-Residence Mid-Atlantic for the U.S....

3 years ago

49 minutes

Global Reentry Presents: Jobs with Jodi

Innovation in Development

In this Jobs with Jodi Podcast episode, Career Services Specialist Jodi Hammer chats with RPCV professionals working within the Innovation sector of international development who share their own experiences as well as offer tips and advice on how to explore career opportunities in the innovation arena. Don't miss this opportunity to be inspired and have your questions answered. FEATURED PANELISTS:RPCV Taylor Cruz (Eswatini 2012–14) is an innovation strategist and UX Designer based ...

3 years ago

46 minutes

Global Reentry Presents: Jobs with Jodi

The Coaching Phenomenon: Peace Corps & Beyond

This episode explores the growing field of coaching, and its impact on the Peace Corps field experience. Career Services Specialist Jodi Hammer chats with two professional coaches who share their experience working as coaches within diverse sectors including as staff with Peace Corps--both in Headquarters and in the field--as well as with other federal agencies and the nonprofit arena. They offer tips and advice based on their own experience, and speak to the variety o...

3 years ago

46 minutes

Global Reentry Presents: Jobs with Jodi

Conversations with RPCV Leaders In Action featuring RPCV Charles Enciso

As part of our Conversations with RPCV Leaders series, this podcast episode features a conversation with RPCV Charles Enciso, who discusses his career path — which has taken him coast to coast in the U.S. and around the world — working for diverse organizations, including the San Diego LGBTQ+ Center; the Humane Society; and multiple international leadership positions with Peace Corps. We also touch on his proven commitment to intercultural diversity & inclusion.FEATURED GUEST:RPCV Charles...

3 years ago

54 minutes

Global Reentry Presents: Jobs with Jodi

The Role of Mentoring in Career Development with George Economides

In this episode, Career Services Specialist Jodi Hammer welcomes RPCV George Economides to discuss the critical role mentoring plays in personal and professional development, including how to identify and secure a mentor. As a seasoned professional and staunch advocate of both being mentored and mentoring others, George speaks candidly from his own experience and that of the many RPCVs he has mentored along the way.FEATURED GUEST:George Economides is a forward-thinking, energetic leader and a...

3 years ago

49 minutes

Global Reentry Presents: Jobs with Jodi

Careers in Multimedia/Digital Media

CAREERS IN MULTIMEDIA & DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS PODCASTThis Jobs with Jodi podcast episode spotlights the careers of three RPCVs working in different capacities within the multimedia and digital communications field. Hear from RPCV featured guests Ryan Fouss, Cedar Wolf, and Orrin Luc as they discuss their own distinct career paths in the digital media field, while offering sage advice to listeners who are interested in turning their passion for storytelling via photograp...

3 years ago

54 minutes

Global Reentry Presents: Jobs with Jodi

The Peace Corps Oral History Project: Record Your Journey

In this episode, Jodi is joined by two representatives from the Peace Corps Oral History Project — including Evelyn Ganzglass (Coordinator of the project), and Violet Esipila (fellow Interviewer.) Also featured is RPCV Olivia Donaldson, PhD, who shares how she tapped into the Oral History project for her multimedia exhibit called Departures: Peace Corps Pandemic Stories. Guests discuss why your Peace Corps story is important and needs be recorded within the Oral History Project, ho...

3 years ago

51 minutes

Global Reentry Presents: Jobs with Jodi

RPCV Leaders In Action Conversation Featuring James Ham

In this episode of Jobs with Jodi, we're joined by RPCV James Ham who discusses his diverse, global work experience with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Peace Corps in our Conversation with RPCV Leaders in Action. James is a staunch advocate of Peace Corps and a shining example of an effective Country Director in his current post in South Africa. He speaks to his career of service both domestic and abroad, and his ascent from temporary Country Desk Assistant in PC HQ to overse...

3 years ago

57 minutes