Wisdom and Wit

Pete La Raus MPA ’04 has lived and worked in Bolivia, the United States, Sudan, Nicaragua, Indonesia, Colombia, Panama, Myanmar, and Nepal. He has served in the Peace Corps as a volunteer and as a country director, and he has worked for Save the Children as an in- tern and, now, as a deputy team leader for program development and quality. He has discovered both the perils of chewing betel nut and the emotional impact of devoting one’s life to work that can feel, at times, like trying to hold back a torrent of water by sticking one’s finger in a hole in a dam. This is what he’s learned along the way.