March 15, 2005: Headlines: COS - Dominican Republic: Development: Development Studies: Rutgers : Some Profiles of M.P.A.-International Development Graduates -Dianne M. Garyantes completed her course work for the program during the l988 - 89. academic year, then served the next two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in El Pozo de Nagua, Dominican Republic
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March 15, 2005: Headlines: COS - Dominican Republic: Development: Development Studies: Rutgers : Some Profiles of M.P.A.-International Development Graduates -Dianne M. Garyantes completed her course work for the program during the l988 - 89. academic year, then served the next two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in El Pozo de Nagua, Dominican Republic
Some Profiles of M.P.A.-International Development Graduates -Dianne M. Garyantes completed her course work for the program during the l988 - 89. academic year, then served the next two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in El Pozo de Nagua, Dominican Republic
Some Profiles of M.P.A.-International Development Graduates -Dianne M. Garyantes completed her course work for the program during the l988 - 89. academic year, then served the next two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in El Pozo de Nagua, Dominican Republic
Dianne M. Garyantes was working as a newspaper reporter in New Brunswick, N.J. when she heard about the Rutgers M.P.A./I.D.A. program and decided to apply.
"I had been thinking about joining the Peace Corps for a number of years, and I was finally ready to take the plunge," she said. "The Rutgers program gave me the academic foundation and tools I needed for international service with the Peace Corps and beyond."
Ms. Garyantes completed her course work for the program during the l988 - 89. academic year, then served the next two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in El Pozo de Nagua, Dominican Republic. During her two years in El Pozo, Ms. Garyantes facilitated the construction of a four-classroom school, a project for which $1,000 US was raised by the local school construction committee. She also ran AIDS education workshops in five communities in the Nagua area, and served on a committee for the Peace Corps-Dominican Republic to train 190 Peace Corps volunteers in AIDS education. Ms. Garyantes also helped to found the Development Issues Group, a group for Peace Corps volunteers in the Dominican Republic to discuss international development policy and how it compared with their work in the field.
"My time in the Dominican Republic changed my whole way of thinking," Ms. Garyantes said. "This new way of thinking was based on what I learned through the Rutgers program and how it related to my experience in El Pow. It was amazing how much I learned during my three years in the program.
"The combination of academic training and field experience is very powerful," Ms. Garyantes said.
Today, Mr. Garyantes works as the Research Coordinator for Travelers, an international travel show produced for the Discovery Channel. The show currently airs in the U.S. and Canada, and in 1997 is slated to broadcast in five languages on Discovery Channel outlets throughout the world
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