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65 Years of World Peace and Friendship with the Peace Corps
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Tue, Feb 24, 2026
5 PM – 7 PM MST (GMT-7)
Private Location (register to display)
135
Registered
Details
5:00 - 5:30pm: Reception (with light bites, beer, wine, and NA beverage options)
5:30 - 7:00pm: Program
Zoom webinar link: https://udenver.zoom.us/j/87109400208
Food Provided (Reception with light bites, wine, beer, and NA beverages)
Speakers
Carol Spahn
Rice Family Professor of the Practice; Former Peace Corps Director
Josef Korbel School of Global & Public Affairs, University of Denver
Carol Spahn is the Rice Family Professor of the Practice of International and Public Affairs at the Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs. Carol was appointed as Acting Director of the Peace Corps by President Joseph R. Biden on his first day of office and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate, serving from 2021 to 2025. With more than thirty years of leadership experience across government, nonprofit organizations, and the private sector, she has lived and worked in Malawi and Romania and led teams throughout Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe, Asia, and the United States. During her tenure at the Peace Corps, she rebuilt and revitalized agency operations following the first-ever global evacuation of Volunteers due to the COVID-19 pandemic, returning more than 3,000 Volunteers to 61 countries.
Caroline Luka
CorpsAfrica Alumna
Morgridge College of Education, University of Denver
Caroline Luka is a CorpsAfrica alumna and a graduate student in Higher Education at the Morgridge College of Education at the University of Denver. She is a development practitioner with experience in project and grant management, compliance, community‑led initiatives, and humanitarian work across the globe. She has collaborated with organizations such as GiveDirectly and the Art and Global Health Center Africa, Community Solutions Program, and currently serves as a Graduate Service Assistant in Student Affairs with the Office of Student Engagement at DU.
Beau Martinez
Josef Korbel School of Global & Public Affairs, University of Denver
Beau Martinez served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay for eight months from September 2023 to June 2024 before being medically separated. Despite the early conclusion of his service, he has a lasting admiration for the Peace Corps and its work. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame and is currently a first-year student at the Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs studying Global Economic Affairs. He is also a ski instructor at Keystone Resort and a Jump Rope enthusiast.
Alana DeJoseph
Award-winning director/producer
Award-winning director/producer Alana DeJoseph was associate producer of the PBS documentaries The Greatest Good (about the U.S. Forest Service) and Green Fire (about conservationist Aldo Leopold). Her second feature documentary about a US government agency came in the form of A Towering Task: The Story of the Peace Corps. On September 22nd, 2019, the film premiered to a full house at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. In 2020, she won the Best Director award in the feature documentary category at the Indo Global International Film Festival in Mumbai, and in 2024, she won an Emmy for A Towering Task. The film has screened at 11 film festivals and won numerous awards, and continues to broadcast on public television stations and streams on AmazonPrime, bringing the discussion about global citizenship to communities across the country and the globe.