Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-ACC-2019-003
Karen Keefer served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nigeria from 1966 to 1968. She was part of an in-service teacher education program in Offa, in Kwara state. She also taught English and helped build a library that included a local Hall of Fame. Following her two years of service, Keefer worked as a Peace Corps trainer in Liberia in 1968 and then joined the staff of the Overseas Recruitment Task Force at Peace Corps headquarters (1977-1979). She started the "African Agenda" group for returned volunteers who had served in Africa, and the ACTION Alumni Association of Greater Washington. These were pre-cursers to the National Peace Corps Association on which she later served as a board member. Keefer also discusses being a founding member of the NPCA Shriver Circle of major NPCA donors, and her work on national Peace Corps reunions. Interviewed and recorded by Evelyn Ganzglass, August 14, 2018. 2 digital audio files (web streaming files combined into 1 file).