Carol Clark
Former Peace Corps Volunteer
Carol Clark served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Nepal in 1984. The following is excerpted from Clark’s May 11, 2011, testimony before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing on the Peace Corps at 50. I am a school teacher, a former Peace Corps volunteer, and a rape survivor. I thought I was alone in my experience, but when I learned that women today are still living through what I thought had been remedied decades ago, I knew I had to come forward. In August 1984, three months after I graduated from college, I flew to Nepal ready…
