COLLEAGUE YEAR: 2007 PLACEMENT: Peace Corps LOCATION: Togo CURRENTLY: Program Specialist, City of Portland Water Bureau “To ‘Imagine Tomorrow Together’ you need to surround yourself with people who believe that another way is possible,” says Fabiola Casas. “When you are the only person believing it, it can feel very isolating. In community, you can feed each other’s imagination.” Following her Peace Corps time in Togo, where she was Girls Education and Empowerment Community O

COLLEAGUE YEAR: 2018 PLACEMENT: UCC Justice Leadership Program, Earth Ministry LOCATION: Seattle Space for tackling uncomfortable issues and learning to lead difficult conversations is at the heart of the Krista Apprentice Facilitator program. As a new Apprentice Facilitator, Krista Colleague Hunter Paulson-Smith describes participating in intentional dialogue with white peers as “a great practice, but definitely uncomfortable. I have to recognize that the skin that I am in,

COLLEAGUE YEAR: 2019 PLACEMENT: Peace Corps LOCATION: Panama Ashley Osler says being a Krista Colleague makes her service something much bigger than just herself. The Water and Sanitation Hygiene volunteer for the Peace Corps assists an indigenous community in the mountainous Comarca Ngäbe-Buglé region of Panama to complete a water system. “As an engineer, my opportunities to combine technical projects with service and faith are very limited,” she says. “These three aspects