Make it (Field) Work

Published on October 20, 2026

Ask five people what grad school looked like as a complement to Peace Corps service, and you won’t hear much about seminars. Somewhere between the thesis and the practicum, a volunteer inevitably finds themselves barreling down a mountain on a bike with a dozen kids trailing behind — and realizing, mid-descent, with certainty that there’s no going back to who they were before.... Read more