The Colorful Life of RPCVs

IMPORTANT!
We wanted to uplift a petition written by Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs) from Guinea to their current Peace Corps (PC) Country Director (CD), JoAnne Yeager.
This petition is in response to JoAnne’s email titled ‘CD Message on injustice and need for change’ in which she committed both herself and the Peace Corps Guinea program to finding solutions to better support and improve engagement with Black Volunteers, Volunteers from marginalized groups, and allies.
In this petition we are addressing five key areas:
1) Equity and Inclusion of Guineans
2) Work Culture and Support Network,
3) Training and Seminars
4) Hiring, Promotion and Recruitment
5) Sexual Assault Case Management.
These demands reflect the experiences of Guineans (Guinean) staff, Black Volunteers, and other Volunteers from marginalized groups who served in Guinea. We hope that this petition will catalyze some well-needed change.
This petition is in both English & French.

Diversity, Anti-Racism, Equity, and Inclusion (DAREI) See the full petition here/ Voir la version complète de la pétition içi English (Version Anglaise): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U7Qn0vxXJUe_0ihu6wnYmKOe_lvwqcGRgNzrB9ICouk/edit?usp=sharing French (Vesion Française): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qtf7rW3Cx1h70eAknk1Gsok3CmAiOq13FLox...

Thank you to all who joined us for our LGBTQIA+ panel yesterday evening, it was a very important and powerful discussion. And of course, thank you to our panelists for speaking your truths and sharing your stories. In case you missed the panel, you can watch the recording on our YouTube channel.

The Colorful Life of RPCVs LGBTQIA+ Diversity Panel Join us as two Returned Peace Corps Volunteers from the Dominican Republic talk about the intersections of their identity.

Join us on December 16th at 5:30pm for our LGBTQIA+ panel! We have an amazing set of panelists who we're really excited to have share their stories, so we hope you'll tune-in.
Thank you to Nesha, Selena, and Bruno for participating in this event, we can't wait to hear from you!
Registration⬇️
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