Milwaukee Peace Corps Association

Dominican Republic 2012-14

Peter Hulbert was a Youth Development Volunteer in Batey Santa Maria in the southwest of the Dominican Republic. He worked on gender empowerment for teenage girls through a program called Chicas Brillante. He also taught HIV/AID education, and coached two soccer teams one for boys and one for girls. After service Peter moved to Boston where he got his masters in Sustainable International Development from The Heller School at Brandeis University. He worked in education empowerment in Boston for five years. In 2021 he moved to Milwaukee where he has been a Community School Coordinator at a Milwaukee Public high school.  In his free time Peter enjoys spending time with his dog Artie, hiking, running, and enjoying the city.

Morocco 1984-86

Anne Leplae was a high school English teacher in Midelt, a small town in the Middle Atlas Mountains of Morocco. She also worked with Catholic Relief services to conduct a
survey of water use in rural regions of Morocco.

After her Peace Corps service, Anne lived in France, Chicago, and eventually came back to Milwaukee. She has worked extensively in the non-profit sector first in refugee
resettlement with Russians in Chicago, then literacy work with immigrant women in France, and finally as executive director of the Alliance Française de Milwaukee, a non-
profit organization whose mission is to promote French language and cultural exchange since 1998.

She has master’s degrees in International Relations and Nonprofit Management. Anne enjoys traveling and taking advantage of all the good things the Milwaukee-area has to
offer. Anne visited her Moroccan friends in Midelt in spring of 2023.

Jordan 2007-2009

Bobbie served in the village of As-Safina in the beautiful olive country in the north of Jordan. She was a TEFL volunteer and taught English predominantly to middle schoolers at a girls’ government school. She was also one of the founding members of the inaugural camp GLOW in Jordan. Her largest ‘project’ was gaining a second loving family with the Zregats. After service, Bobbie went to grad school at NYU and received her MSW. She is now the Program Director at a mental health agency that provides community based mental health support to adults living with severe and persistent mental health conditions who live in the community. Bobbie serves as the Secretary of the MPCA board. In her free time Bobbie enjoys hiking, kayaking, finding ways to practice her Arabic, and pretending she knows how to roller skate.

Zambia 2014-16

Jodi served as a Community Health Development Agent (CHIP Cohort) at a rural health post in the Eastern District of Zambia outside of Lundazi town center. Her main focuses were Malaria and HIV/AIDS prevention but efforts also included youth group education, teaching English, business development, hygiene and sanitation, and Ebola prevention. She enjoyed rural life during her Peace Corps service which she came back to in time as she is currently enjoying married life as a homeowner near the Kettle Moraine State Forest. Jodi continues to find purpose serving the public through her community service work. For years Jodi was a member of MPCA but recently began service as the MPCA Membership Chair endeavoring to help build and retain memberships. Jodi feels that MPCA is a place for everyone; the organization is a constant you can go back to for conversation as casual or deep as you like at an event as small or large as you are comfortable where you are bound to recognize faces over time and share a laugh! Jodi went skydiving in the Namibian desert beside the Atlantic Ocean and will likely never go again, because when you do something right it does not need to be done again.

Cameroon 1983-85

Catharine served as a Community Development Volunteer in the rural area of eastern Cameroon. In the field, she identified villages in need of clean spring water and worked in collaboration with CARE International to improve access to clean ground water as an alternative source to contaminated river water. She also identified land management needs and worked with local entities to meet those needs. Upon her return, she worked in Washington DC for an international consulting firm working with USAID on natural resource management projects in West Africa and Russia, went to graduate school getting a degree in Urban and Regional Planning, and then worked in the environmental field. In 2020, she moved to Milwaukee from Pennsylvania and worked in the health sector. Catharine serves as the Milwaukee PC Association (MPCA) Outreach Chair, aiming to engage local RPCV of all ages to use MPCA as a resource and to serve as a network within the community and beyond. “My desire to live in a French speaking African country was a dream – a dream that came true through Peace Corps. I am forever thankful for my insight and drive to be part of Peace Corps”.

Bio to come