Janelle served in Senegal from 2015-2017 as a sustainable agriculture volunteer. After the Peace Corps, she went on to earn her master's degree in environmental science and management from UC Santa Barbara's Bren School of Environmental Science & Management. She now works as a climate change communication fellow for the USDA's Northwest Climate Hub.

Dylan Hinson served as an English teacher in Namibia Omufitu Wanauyala, Omusati, Namibia in 2016-2018. Now, he is the coleader of the Portland Chapter of the Citizens' Climate Lobby and advocates for climate policy with the Returned Peace Corps Volunteers for Environmental Action. By day, Dylan helps scientists understand what it means when they hit a cell with lasers.

Gabriella Maertens is a native Oregonian. She served as a PE and English teacher in Niger from 1964 -66, married a Togolese and lived in Niger and Togo for 12 more years. Her three children were born in Niger. She returned to Oregon in 1978 and taught ESL at Madison High School until she retired in 1999 after 35 years as a teacher. Since retirement she has volunteered as an ESL teacher overseas and in the Portland area. She is the coordinator of the Salon Francophone group which currently meets on zoom on the second Monday of each month from 6:30 to 8:00.  

Maranee ‘Mimi” Sanders served in Gaziantep, Turkey 1963-65 as a home economist teaching in villages,”Demonstrating making baby food in 4-H like classes for girls 10-teens”, and in a Girls Home Ec. High School.  She returned to U. of Utah to get an M.A. in Dance & Minor in Turkish.  She Taught at PSU, and as an artist in the schools teaching Mask Making inspired by legends around the world, and networking with International dancers in Portland,  presenting them in a series of concertsto get them started in our community.  She chairs our PC Writers group, where returnees can write about their peace corps experience in memoir, prose or poetry or any form.