Peace Corps Director Jody Olsen visits D-Lab

Peace Corps Director Jody Olsen(4th from right) with other Returning Peace Corps Volunteers in attendance including D-Lab Founding Director Amy Smith (4th from left), D-Lab Global Training Manager Sher Vogel (2nd from left), and Ari Jacobovitz from MIT International Science & Technology Initiatives (far right). Photo: Megha Hegde/MIT D-Lab
Peace Corps Director Jody Olsen(4th from right) with other Returning Peace Corps Volunteers in attendance including D-Lab Founding Director Amy Smith (4th from left), D-Lab Global Training Manager Sher Vogel (2nd from left), and Ari Jacobovitz from MIT International Science & Technology Initiatives (far right). Photo: Megha Hegde/MIT D-Lab
MIT D-Lab

On Friday, March 29, D-Lab welcomed Peace Corps Director Jody Olsen to campus.

Among the group assembled from conversation were MIT and Tufts University undergraduate and graduate students, staff associates from MIT D-Lab, as well as staff from the MIT-Africa program at (MISTI) and MIT Career Advising and organizations such as Third Sector New England.

Well represented were returning peace corps volunteers including D-Lab Founding Director Amy Smith who served four years in the Peace Corps in Botswana and D-Lab Global Trainings Manager Sher Vogel who spent three and a half years with Peace Corps in Ethiopia.