Maddie Casey, first year MSSW student, has joined the Center for Global Engagement’s Peace Corps Prep Program team. Casey will be working as the University of Tennessee’s Peace Corps Recruiter to connect interested students with the Peace Corps.
Established in 1961, the Peace Corps is a two-year long international volunteer program for American citizens, typically focused on socioeconomic development assistance, which has placed volunteers in more than 140 countries. UT has partnered with the Peace Corps to offer students a certificate from the Peace Corps Prep Program, which helps students prepare for international development fieldwork and potential Peace Corps service.
Three months after graduating from college, Casey herself left to join the Peace Corps in Zambia, with the goal of combining her dual interests of social work and international work.
“Social work is a career where you focus on helping people, and I was really interested in international work, hence why I was studying Spanish, and I really wanted to combine the two, and Peace Corps was the best way for me to do that,” Casey said.
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