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Women of Peace Corps Legacy's Extra-Ordinary Women Podcast

Kathleen Corey

16 episodes

1 week ago

Women of Peace Corps Legacy interviews an “Extra-Ordinary Woman”, Juliet Sorensen, the recipient of the 2025 Deborah Harding Women of Achievement Award. Juliet was a maternal and child health Peace Corps Volunteer in southeastern Morocco from 1995 to 1997. Featured Guest: Juliet Sorensen is a clinical professor of law and the director of the Rule of Law Institute and Program in Rule of Law for Development at Loyola University Chicago. Prior to joining the faculty of Loyola, Juliet was on fa...

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Women of Peace Corps Legacy interviews an “Extra-Ordinary Woman”, Juliet Sorensen, the recipient of the 2025 Deborah Harding Women of Achievement Award. Juliet was a maternal and child health Peace Corps Volunteer in southeastern Morocco from 1995 to 1997. Featured Guest: Juliet Sorensen is a clinical professor of law and the director of the Rule of Law Institute and Program in Rule of Law for Development at Loyola University Chicago. Prior to joining the faculty of Loyola, Juliet was on fa...

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Women of Peace Corps Legacy's Extra-Ordinary Women Podcast

Extra-Ordinary Woman: Juliet Sorensen

Women of Peace Corps Legacy interviews an “Extra-Ordinary Woman”, Juliet Sorensen, the recipient of the 2025 Deborah Harding Women of Achievement Award. Juliet was a maternal and child health Peace Corps Volunteer in southeastern Morocco from 1995 to 1997. Featured Guest: Juliet Sorensen is a clinical professor of law and the director of the Rule of Law Institute and Program in Rule of Law for Development at Loyola University Chicago. Prior to joining the faculty of Loyola, Juliet was on fa...

1 week ago

31 minutes

Women of Peace Corps Legacy's Extra-Ordinary Women Podcast

Extra-Ordinary Woman: Ann Morgan

Women of Peace Corps Legacy interviews an “Extra-Ordinary Woman”, Ann Morgan . She was one of the earliest Peace Corps Volunteers, serving in Nigeria from 1962-1964 where she taught English in a secondary school. Featured Guest: Ann Morgan holds a BS in Journalism from the University of Illinois and an MA in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. She studied Cross-Cultural Communications at the East West Center in Hawaii, Swahili at Michigan State University,...

3 months ago

28 minutes

Women of Peace Corps Legacy's Extra-Ordinary Women Podcast

Extra-Ordinary Woman: Kim Dixon

Women of Peace Corps Legacy interviews an “Extra-Ordinary Woman”, Kim Dixon. She is the recent past president of Partnering for Peace: Friends of Peace Corps and Rotary. Featured Guest: Kim Dixon's career has taken her from sales, marketing, curriculum development, and Business Development and Organizational Change consulting - working with local startups to Fortune 500 corporations worldwide, As an early adopter of Internet for Business she has been a public advocate, speaking globally ...

4 months ago

28 minutes

Women of Peace Corps Legacy's Extra-Ordinary Women Podcast

Extra-Ordinary Woman: Jody Olson

Women of Peace Corps Legacy interviews an “Extra-Ordinary Woman”, Jody Olson. Jody is currently co-president of the Women of Peace Corps Legacy and is chair of the Peace Corps Commemorative Foundation Park Advisory Committee and the University of Maryland, College of Education Board of Visitors. Podcast Host: Josephine (Jody) Olsen served as Peace Corps Director, 2018 – 2021. In March, 2020, because of the COVID outbreak, she led the nine day evacuation of all 7,000 Peace Corps Volunteers fro...

7 months ago

33 minutes

Women of Peace Corps Legacy's Extra-Ordinary Women Podcast

Extra-Ordinary Woman: Deborah Harding part 1

Women of Peace Corps Legacy interviews an “Extra-Ordinary Woman”, Deborah Harding. Women of Peace Corps Legacy's Women of Achievement Award is named after Deborah, to recognize women leaders who have made a significant difference in the lives of women and girls around the world. Featured Guest: Deborah Harding was the founder of the Liberian Education Trust, a transition initiative to help rebuild the education system destroyed by 14-years of civil war. The Trust brought access to educ...

9 months ago

30 minutes

Women of Peace Corps Legacy's Extra-Ordinary Women Podcast

Extra-Ordinary Woman: Deborah Harding part 2

Women of Peace Corps Legacy interviews an “Extra-Ordinary Woman”, Deborah Harding. Women of Peace Corps Legacy's Women of Achievement Award is named after Deborah, to recognize women leaders who have made a significant difference in the lives of women and girls around the world. Featured Guest: Deborah Harding was the founder of the Liberian Education Trust, a transition initiative to help rebuild the education system destroyed by 14-years of civil war. The Trust brought access to educ...

9 months ago

31 minutes

Women of Peace Corps Legacy's Extra-Ordinary Women Podcast

Extra-Ordinary Woman: Anita Friedman

Women of Peace Corps Legacy interviews an “Extra-Ordinary Woman”, Anita Friedman. Anita currently serves as the Director of Arlington County’s Department of Human Services (DHS), where she oversees the delivery of services to approximately 50,000 Arlington residents striving to maintain a healthy, safe and economically secure life. Featured Guest: Anita has been with DHS for 15 years, also serving as Deputy Director and Economic Independence Division Director. In her role as DHS Director, s...

1 year ago

31 minutes

Women of Peace Corps Legacy's Extra-Ordinary Women Podcast

Extra-Ordinary Woman: Kate Raftery

Women of Peace Corps Legacy interviews an “Extra-Ordinary Woman”, Kate Raftery. Women of Peace Corps Legacy's Emerging Leadership Award is named after Kate, to honor emerging women leaders under the age of 40 that have shown a dedication to improving the lives of women and girls. Featured Guest: Kate Raftery has dedicated her career to the elevation and empowerment of young professionals and development of direct ties between service and the addressing of critical social needs. As Peace Cor...

1 year ago

32 minutes

Women of Peace Corps Legacy's Extra-Ordinary Women Podcast

Extra-Ordinary Woman: Carol Bellamy, Former Director of Peace Corps and UNICEF

Women of Peace Corps Legacy interviews an “Extra-Ordinary Woman”, Carol Bellamy. Carol was the former director of the Peace Corps from 1993-1995. She has many accomplishments on behalf of women and girls empowerment. Featured Guest Carol Bellamy is a former government and nonprofit executive and politician. She was recently chair of the board of the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF), which is the first global funding effort to address violent extremist a...

1 year ago

34 minutes

Women of Peace Corps Legacy's Extra-Ordinary Women Podcast

Extra-Ordinary Woman: Carrie Hessler-Radelet

Women of Peace Corps Legacy interviews an “Extra-Ordinary Woman”, Carrie Hessler-Radelet. Carrie is the President & CEO of Global Communities, an international non-profit organization dedicated to bringing together local ingenuity and global insights to save lives, advance equity and secure strong futures. Featured Guest: Prior to Global Communities, Carrie served as the President & CEO of Project Concern International (PCI), which merged into Global Communities on April 6, 2020. Pri...

1 year ago

32 minutes

Women of Peace Corps Legacy's Extra-Ordinary Women Podcast

Extra-Ordinary Woman: Dr. Ronda Ansted

Women of Peace Corps Legacy interviews an “Extra-Ordinary Woman”, Dr. Ronda Ansted. She is the creator of My Career Design Studio, an online coaching program designed to support under-resourced communities and individuals with career coaching best practices. She served with the Peace Corps in South Africa as a Community and HIV/AIDS Capacity Builder in 2007. Featured Guest: Dr. Ronda Ansted, through her experience and research on international development NGOs and social enterprises, is commi...

1 year ago

31 minutes

Women of Peace Corps Legacy's Extra-Ordinary Women Podcast

Extra-Ordinary Woman: Ambassador Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley

Ambassador Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, is Women of Peace Corps Legacy’s “Extra-Ordinary Woman” in this extraordinary episode. She served with the Peace Corps in Oman, and won WPCL’s 2023 Deborah Harding Women of Achievement Award. Featured Guest: Ambassador Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley has had a pathbreaking career in the Foreign Service and has created new opportunities and possibilities for women and minorities. Among her many accomplishments as a U.S. diplomat, she served as a political o...

1 year ago

31 minutes

Women of Peace Corps Legacy's Extra-Ordinary Women Podcast

Extra-Ordinary Woman: Kelly Cronen

Women of Peace Corps Legacy interviews an “Extra-Ordinary Woman”, Kelly Cronen. She currently serves as a Counter-Trafficking in Persons (C-TIP) international development. Featured Guest: Kelly Cronen became a Peace Corps volunteer in Albania (2003-2005) where she worked with a local civil society support organization and with a shelter for trafficked women. Through this experience she had the opportunity to meet and learn from over 300 women who had been trafficked, which shaped her perspe...

2 years ago

27 minutes

Women of Peace Corps Legacy's Extra-Ordinary Women Podcast

Extra-Ordinary Women: Jaynice Del Rosario & Sue Richiedei

Women of Peace Corps Legacy interviews two “Extra-Ordinary Women”, Jaynice Del Rosario, the 2022 winner of the Kate Raftery Emerging Leader Award, and Sue Richiedei, the recipient of the 2019 Deborah Harding Women of Achievement Award. Featured Guests: Jaynice Del Rosario - “Women and girls know what they need”. Jaynice was conducting independent research on girls’ lack of access to education in Cameroon in 2010, where she met Peace Corps Volunteers who inspired her. She served as a Peace Co...

2 years ago

35 minutes

Women of Peace Corps Legacy's Extra-Ordinary Women Podcast

Extra-Ordinary Woman: Introduction Trailer

This introduction gives a trailer to our first guest, Latanya Frett, who will be discussing her journey from a Peace Corps volunteer to a CEO of Global Fund for Women. Our host, Kathleen Corey, will introduce the Women of Peace Corps Legacy and a brief welcome to our new podcast series.

2 years ago

1 minute

Women of Peace Corps Legacy's Extra-Ordinary Women Podcast

Extra-Ordinary Woman: Latanya Mapp Frett, RPCV and CEO

In our first podcast of "Extra-Ordinary Women," Women of Peace Corps Legacy interviews Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Latanya Mapp Frett, President and CEO of Global Fund for Women. Latanya, who got her start in international affairs as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Lesotho, talks about her journey from Volunteer to CEO of an NGO supporting global gender justice. Listen in as she discusses her many years of experience including leading Global Fund for Women which has supported grassroots o...

2 years ago

32 minutes