Kate Schachter served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana from 2004-2007, an NPCA Board member and Group Leaders Forum Coordinator from 2010-13, and a Peace Corps Response Volunteer in Georgia from 2016-2017. She has been active on the leadership team of the RPCVs of Wisconsin-Madison since 2007. She is one of the founding members of the NPCA affiliate group, RPCVs for Environmental Action.

Brady served as a Peace Corps Health and Community Development Volunteer in Kiribati from 2006-2008. In addition to being involved with RPCVs for Environmental Action, he volunteers with Citizens’ Climate Lobby, Sierra Club and Rochester People’s Climate Coalition, while also working to raise awareness of climate change migration. As his day job, he is Director of Public Engagement at Climate Solutions Accelerator of the Genesee-Finger Lakes Region. And as his night job, he is husband and a father to two young children.

Brady is Co-Chair (with Mike Roman) of the Peace Corps Action Team initiative with Citizens' Climate Lobby.

Barbara Jue put her  30 years of business experience to work as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Moldova 2013-2015. She consulted in small enterprise development and entrepreneurship, as well as taught English in her local community. Today she lives in San Francisco and is an active member of the local Citizens' Climate Lobby chapter.

Dylan served as a teacher in Peace Corps Namibia from 2016-2018. He misses his students and the heat. Now, Dylan works as a bioinformatician in Ashland, Oregon. In addition to his work with RPCV4EA, Dylan serves as the co-leader of the Southern Oregon Citizens' Climate Lobby.

Working volunteer in community, church and RPCV group...

Kaitlyn served as Peace Corps Coastal Resource Management Volunteer in the Philippines (2017-2019) and as an AmeriCorps member with CAC AmeriCorps of Knoxville, Tennessee (2016-2017). She is an active member of Citizens' Climate Lobby.

Meredith served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in St. Vincent and the Grenadines from 1995-1997. She served on the NorCal Peace Corps Association Board and was a member of the NorCal PCA Grants Committee from 2015-2022. Meredith is a global health and development consultant and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband (a PCV she met in St. Vincent!) and two children.

Arianna began her Peace Corps journey in 2017 in Eswatini (Swaziland) where she worked within local institutions to mitigate the impacts of HIV/AIDS in her community. Following the completion of her service in 2019, Arianna finished her Master's in International Development from Oklahoma State University and moved to Washington, D.C. to begin employment with National Peace Corps Association, where she worked extensively with many affiliate groups, including RPCVs for Environmental Action. Following her time at NPCA, Arianna decided to continue fueling her passion for climate action in a volunteer capacity with RPCV4EA, and was elected to the board in early 2023. Arianna also continues her work within the Peace Corps community with RPCV Ventures, a company founded to support RPCV-led businesses.

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Kiribati, 2000-2002), Fulbright Fellow, co-creator of the social media platform Humans of Kiribati, and author of When There was No Money, Mike received his Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh in 2014. His dissertation Migration, Transnationality, and Climate Change in the Republic of Kiribati,focused on the history and impacts of climate change on the I-Kiribati (Kiribati nationals) within and beyond the borders of the nation. His dissertation topic was turned into a 2018 Sundance selection Anote’s Ark, by Matthieu Rytz. Mike’s most recent film collaboration One Word, by Kameradistinnen Studio, highlights the Marshall Islands' fight for climate justice, and ultimately, survival. Collaborating with governments, international media, non-profit organizations, and citizens from around the world, he has spent the last 20 years raising global consciousness of our planet’s climate crisis from the frontlines. He currently teaches at the University of Cincinnati.

RPCV Malaysia 1971-73. Citizens Climate Lobby, Cool Planet, and major environmentalist Low Carbon Crossing rider

Mel Siegel is professor emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute in its School of Computer Science. He received his bachelor's degrees from Cornell University and his PhD from the University of Colorado - Boulder under Nobel Laureate John L. Hall.

Mel served in the Peace Corps Ghana 1962-64, teaching physics and math at Achimota School, outside Accra, Ghana, in the two years between his undergraduate and graduate studies. During this period he traveled extensively on the ground in West and Central Africa, sometimes even in compliance with Peace Corps rules.