A daughter of Chinese immigrants gives back in retirement
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Peace Corps gave me a way to embrace a new purpose after I retired in 2010.
I’m a child of Chinese immigrants who owned a laundry business and raised five children. Through post-graduate education and hard work, I had a successful business career as a global human resources professional in a variety of industries, including energy, semiconductor manufacturing, and consumer products. Accustomed to being a change agent in corporations, I also sought out new personal experiences, particularly ones that fed my curiosity about the world around me.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 2, 2021) On March 1, 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed an executive order that established the Peace Corps as a volunteer agency in the U.S Department of State. Sixty years later, as the agency celebrates its diamond anniversary, University of Kentucky Libraries’Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History is continuing its work with local and national partners to preserve many of the stories and experiences of the more than 241,000 Americans who have served in the Peace Corps.
From stories of volunteers evacuated from their host countries at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to accounts from some of the first groups to volunteer with the agency, the Nunn Center has helped the Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs) collect and preserve a wide array of interviews with former volunteers from 1993 to the present.