1978: Margaret A Baker served in Ghana in Tamale beginning in 1978



Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Margaret A Baker can be contacted at agentmegacomcastdnet

Country of Service: Ghana

Training Group: Teacher

Cities you served in: Tamale

Arrival Year: 1978

Departure Year: 1979

Work Description: Secondary School Biology Teacher

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps:
Lived in Vienna, Austria for 2 yrs working at Univ then went on to "higher educational objectives": M.S. Human Nutrition Columbia Univ., PhD Nutrition/Pharmacology Univ Cal Davis, Postdoc Stanford Cancer Biology, Univ Penn Assist Prof Radiation Biology, Biotech Cancer Research, Patent Bar 1999, now Patent & Competitive Intelligence for Centocor (a J&J company). Married from 1994 to 2003 to John F OBrien also an RPCV (Peru 1963). No children.

Any thoughts you have now looking back on peace corps days?:
1) Malnutrition is a political consequence not a failure of education or agroscience. 2) But seriously folks "can't we just get along?". 3) I hate when I get caught in the cross-fire but waddayagonnado?



Originally posted: January 1, 2003

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