President Donald Trump recently appointed the Salt Lake City native and daughter of the late U.S. Rep. David King as the director of the Peace Corps. She is tasked with overseeing one of the largest volunteer organizations in the country. And she’s doing it at a challenging time for the agency, which faces budget constraints and proposed cuts despite bipartisan support.
The Senate unanimously confirmed Olsen last month and she was sworn in two weeks ago in front of a portrait of John F. Kennedy, who established the Peace Corps in 1961. JFK was a Democrat and the president when Olsen was in college and her dad in Congress.