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: 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

COLLEAGUE YEAR: 2013 PLACEMENT: Whitworth Costa Rica Center CURRENTLY: Bilingual Wish Manager, Make-A-Wish Foundation Alaska and Washington ​​Five years after her service placement in Costa Rica, Lauren Davies is in Spokane with the Make-A-Wish Foundation. As its first bilingual Wish Coordinator, she makes dreams come true for dozens of families each year whose children face critical health challenges. Families who speak Spanish turn to Lauren when they have questions or need

COLLEAGUE YEAR: 2008 SENDING ORG: CURE International REGION: Developing Nations LOCATION: Kampala, Uganda “Having people around who can carry for me what I can’t carry for myself, provide hope when I can’t see it—they matter,” says new mom Courtney Paine Vogliano ’08 of the Krista Colleagues she has known for years. “To have someone say that’s tough, that’s brutal, we’ve gotta keep going—that’s a huge part of resilience.” Serving at CURE children’s hospital in Uganda sparked

COLLEAGUE YEAR: 2005 SENDING ORG: Salesians REGION: Developing Nations LOCATION: Sierra Leone "Small differences can add up to big impact,” said panelist Matthew Moskwik ’05, addressing new colleagues at the May conference. If you can’t change a system, “you can make small changes that hopefully cascade upwards through time and make a difference to one individual or to one little patch of habitat.” A landscape and spatial ecologist who assesses climate change impact at Defend