One person to another: The power of the Peace Corps to change a life You are here April 21, 2021 My relationship with the Peace Corps began on a day like any other. I couldn’t have known my life was about to change. I was 17 and sitting in my high school English class when the principal came into the classroom. He set up a slide projector in the back of the room and, a few minutes later, started flipping through slides and beaming as he talked about his time as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana in the late 1960s. I had never heard of the Peace Corps before, nor did I have any concept of global service, but I was taken in by his stories. And, just like that, my life's plan included joining the Peace Corps one day.