Extra-Ordinary Woman: Kim Dixon

Women of Peace Corps Legacy interviews an “Extra-Ordinary Woman”, Kim Dixon. She is the recent past president of Partnering for Peace: Friends of Peace Corps and Rotary.Featured Guest:Kim Dixon's career has taken her from sales, marketing, curriculum development, and Business Development and Organizational Change consulting - working with local startups to Fortune 500 corporations worldwide, As an early adopter of Internet for Business she has been a public advocate, speaking globally on opportunities with IBM and subsequently held executive positions in several Internet startups. Ms. Dixon took a sabbatical 2014-2016 to serve in the US Peace Corps, country of Georgia in an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) refugee resettlement. After her service she returned to Georgia to support several projects through NGOs and religious groups in Tbilisi, as well as conduct regional board governance consulting. She resides in Raleigh NC and is active with Peace Corps Association of North Carolina, Rotary and Partnering for Peace:Friends of Peace Corps and RotaryMentioned in the podcast:Natasha Wamchek,  who is part of the Rotary-Peace Corps Joint Projects, referenced her in the Ukrainian project. She is part of the RPCV Alliance for Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf7sbXzlQQ4References to Bartosz Gawarecki.  Here is a very good story he tells of Friends of Moldova (but it is a long webcast and he is at 50 minutes into the broadcast) in.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCib3Vv-IgsPodcast Host:Lee Lacy is a senior leader, management consultant, facilitator and coach whose career in international and national programs spans four decades. She is a founding member of Women of Peace Corps Legacy. Lee has served in several senior positions for the Peace Corps. In these roles, she worked with Peace Corps Volunteers and staff making the transition to different cultural contexts. She serves as a job search counselor for the Foreign Service Institute’s Transition Center providing assistance to Foreign Service officers preparing for a second career or retirement. As a trainer and director of the Overseas Briefing Center, Lee conducted cross-cultural and re-entry training for foreign affairs employees and their families. She has lived and worked in Samoa, Nepal, Armenia, and Afghanistan.Women of Peace Corps Legacy (WPCL) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to advance women and girls empowerment to create a more just, equitable, inclusive, and safe world for future generations.  WPCL seeks to partner with and highlight the work of those existing organizations and programs that are effectively addressing the issues of women and girls.