New Peace Corps director Jody Olsen most enjoys seeing ‘people change’

The organization's 20th director started her service as a volunteer in Tunisia in the 1960s and said she hopes it can continue its mission while maintaining vol...

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Jody Olsen cannot quite seem to leave the Peace Corps behind. She volunteered in Tunisia for the Corps in the 1960s. In between various jobs, she has returned to the Peace Corps as a country director and deputy director. Now she has returned again, this time as director. She was sworn in just a month ago and joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin in the studio.

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