Boston College Peace Corps recruiter and returned volunteer Lori Dunn, along with three BC graduate return volunteers, gave a presentation on the benefits of joining the Peace Corps has in the workplace and beyond.

“It was just the most shocking thing I had ever seen,” McCartney said as she recalled arriving in the devastated New Orleans. “To see that level of destruction and devastation ... helped me realize that this whole system of disaster recovery and response in our country, at the time, was really broken.”

A small-town Minnesota girl learned it's what she's doing, not where she is, that matters.