When Jody Olsen kicked off her trip to Tunisia as a Peace Corps volunteer in 1966, she never imagined that the one-time experience would blossom into a decadeslong career in the organization.
“It was an accident that I found myself back in international involvement,” Olsen said Wednesday. During a dispatch to Togo in 1979 as a country director for the Peace Corps, the Salt Lake City native decided that she had found her true passion.
“This is really what I’m about,” Olsen recalled of that epiphany. “I’m about helping to build teams that change lives in cultures and countries around the world.