Milwaukee Peace Corps Association

President

Peter Hulbert- Dominican Republic 2012-14

Peter Hulbert was a Youth Development Volunteer in Batey Santa Maria in the southwest of the Dominican Republic. He worked on gender empowerment for teenage girls through a program called Chicas Brillante. He also taught HIV/AID education, and coached two soccer teams one for boys and one for girls. After service Peter moved to Boston where he got his masters in Sustainable International Development from The Heller School at Brandeis University. He worked in education empowerment in Boston for five years. In 2021 he moved to Milwaukee where he has been a Community School Coordinator at a Milwaukee Public high school.  In his free time Peter enjoys spending time with his dog Artie, hiking, running, and enjoying the city.

Treasure 

Anne Leplae- Morocco 1984-86

Anne Leplae was a high school English teacher in Midelt, a small town in the Middle
Atlas Mountains of Morocco. She also worked with Catholic Relief services to conduct a
survey of water use in rural regions of Morocco.
After her Peace Corps service, Anne lived in France, Chicago, and eventually came back
to Milwaukee. She has worked extensively in the non-profit sector first in refugee
resettlement with Russians in Chicago, then literacy work with immigrant women in
France, and finally as executive director of the Alliance Française de Milwaukee, a non-
profit organization whose mission is to promote French language and cultural exchange
since 1998.

She has master’s degrees in International Relations and Nonprofit Management. Anne
enjoys traveling and taking advantage of all the good things the Milwaukee-area has to
offer. Anne visited her Moroccan friends in Midelt in spring of 2023.

Secretary 

Bobbie Zerfas- Jordan 2007-2009

Bobbie served in the village of As-Safina in the beautiful olive country in the north of Jordan. She was a TEFL volunteer and taught English predominantly to middle schoolers at a girls’ government school. She was also one of the founding members of the inaugural camp GLOW in Jordan. Her largest 'project' was gaining a second loving family with the Zregats. After service, Bobbie went to grad school at NYU and received her MSW. She is now the Program Director at a mental health agency that provides community based mental health support to adults living with severe and persistent mental health conditions who live in the community. Bobbie serves as the Secretary of the MPCA board. In her free time Bobbie enjoys hiking, kayaking, finding ways to practice her Arabic, and pretending she knows how to roller skate.

Membership Chair

Jodi St. Charles- Zambia 2014-16

Jodi served as a Community Health Development Agent (CHIP Cohort) at a rural health post in the Eastern District of Zambia outside of Lundazi town center. Her main focuses were Malaria and HIV/AIDS prevention but efforts also included youth group education, teaching English, business development, hygiene and sanitation, and Ebola prevention. She enjoyed rural life during her Peace Corps service which she came back to in time as she is currently enjoying married life as a homeowner near the Kettle Moraine State Forest. Jodi continues to find purpose through her work serving the public through government. For years Jodi was a member of MPCA but recently began service as the MPCA Membership Chair endeavoring to help build and retain memberships. Jodi feels that MPCA is a place for everyone; the organization is a constant you can go back to for conversation as casual or deep as you like at an event as small or large as you are comfortable where you are bound to recognize faces over time and share a laugh! Jodi went skydiving in the Namibian desert beside the Atlantic Ocean and will likely never go again, because when you do something right it does not need to be done again.

Historian

Paul Kinsley- Turkey 1965-67

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