1983: Jim Leake served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Tunisia in Tunis, Bizerte beginning in 1983



Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Jim Leake can be contacted at jmleakeaillinoisdedu

Country of Service: Tunisia

Training Group: Fisheries

Cities you served in: Tunis, Bizerte

Arrival Year: 1983

Departure Year: 1986

Work Description:

worked for a national boatbuilding company, EMACOR. also taught a course (Genie Maritime) at INAT, the Ag school

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps:

I teach engineering graphics and product design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My wife Stephanie is an RPCV from Oman. She was also in Tunisia for part of my stint there. In the 90's we lived for six years in the UAE, just across the border form Oman. After Tunisia I worked for six years designing fishing boats in Seattle.

Any thoughts you have now looking back on peace corps days?:

I'm very proud of my time in the Peace Corpse, certainly one of the best things I have ever done.



Originally posted: 11/7/2008

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