Carrie Hessler-Radelet

Carrie Hessler-Radelet
19th Director of the Peace Corps
Assumed office
August 21, 2012
Acting: August 2012 – June 5, 2014*
President Barack Obama
Preceded by Aaron S. Williams
Personal details
Nationality American
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Steven Radelet
Children Meghan, Sam
Alma mater Boston University
Harvard School of Public Health
Profession Public health

Carolyn "Carrie" Hessler Radelet is the 19th and current Director of the Peace Corps.

Career and Education

A former volunteer (Western Samoa; 1981-1983) she was the Deputy Director of the Peace Corps, a position she held since 2010 until her elevation to Director.[1]

From 2000 to 2010 she worked for John Snow, Inc. as the Vice President and Director of the Washington, D.C. office and Director of the Boston International Group from 1996 to 2000.[1]

Hessler Radelet served as an HIV/AIDS Advisor with the Health and Child Survival Fellows Program at the USAID in Indonesia from 1994 to 1995 and as a Technical Advisor for John Snow, Inc. in Indonesia from 1991 to 1994.[1]

From 1989 to 1991, she served as the Acting Director of the Boston International Group with John Snow, Inc.[2] From 1986 to 1988, she founded and served as the Executive Director of the Special Olympics in the Republic of The Gambia,[3] and served as a consultant with The Gambia Family Planning Association.[2]

She had also served as a Public Affairs Manager at the Peace Corps Regional Office in Boston from 1984 to 1986.

She received a B.A. from Boston University and an M.S. from Harvard School of Public Health.[2][3]

Service in the Peace Corps

Radelet served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Western Samoa, where she taught high school and helped design a national public awareness campaign on disaster preparedness.[1][3]

Family

Hessler-Radelet's aunt was the 10,000th Peace Corps Volunteer and served in Turkey (1964–66), her grandparents served in Malaysia (1972–73), and her nephew recently completed his service as an HIV education Volunteer in Mozambique (2007–09).[1]

She and her husband, Steve, have two grown children.[1]

Nomination as Deputy Director of the Peace Corps

On November 9, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Radelet to serve as the Deputy Director of the Peace Corps.[3] She was appointed on June 23, 2010.[1]

At the time of her nomination she was the Director at the JSI Research and Training Institute, Inc, a global public health organization, where she oversees the management of programs in more than 30 countries.[3] Radelet was a Board member of the National Peace Corps Association and served on the steering committee for the US Coalition for Child Survival.[3]

Deputy Director of the Peace Corps

During her time as deputy director, she led the roll-out of the Focus In/Train Up initiative, which provides targeted technical training to Volunteers to increase their capacity-building abilities.[1]

Nomination as Director of the Peace Corps

On July 18, 2013, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate Hessler-Radelet as the Director of the Peace Corps.[2][4] She was confirmed as Director on June 5, 2014.[1][5]

Service in Presidential Delegations

Hessler-Radelet has served as the leader or part of a Presidential delegation in two instances.

On January 13, 2012, President Barack Obama announced the delegation to attend the Inauguration of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia. On January 16, 2012, Hessler-Radelet, then Deputy Secretary, went to Monrovia as part of a Presidential delegation along with the then United States Ambassador to Liberia, Linda Thomas-Greenfield and United States Senator of Delaware, Christopher Coons, amongst others, led by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.[6]

On February 20, 2013, President Barack Obama announced the delegation to attend the Inauguration of Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone. Hessler-Radelet led the delegation.[7]

See also

References

Government offices
Preceded by
Aaron S. Williams
Director of the Peace Corps
2014-present
Succeeded by
Incumbent
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