Gaddi H. Vasquez is visiting our Rabat Headquarters in Morocco, in order to meet with the Peace Corps staff. Then he will extend his travels to meet with a few of the Volunteers stationed here in Morocco during the first week in August. Unfortunately I didn't have the opportunity to personally meet Gaddi Vasquez due to a last minute change in his schedule.
Hereafter is the profile that Peace Corps has on him...
Gaddi Vasquez is the 16th director of the Peace Corps. He was nominated by President George W. Bush and unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on January 23, 2002. Mr. Vasquez is the first Hispanic American to serve as director of the Peace Corps.Under Mr. Vasquez's leadership, the Peace Corps is meeting the challenges of the world in the 21st century. Mr. Vasquez's priority as director has been to revitalize the Peace Corps through a comprehensive outreach and recruitment program focused on attracting a diverse group of Volunteers and staff from America's best and brightest. Mr. Vasquez's public career includes service at the city, county, state, and federal levels of government. He began his 22-year career in public service as a police officer in Orange, California. Mr. Vasquez served as an appointee of former California Governors Pete Wilson and George Deukmejian and was appointed by former President George H.W. Bush to federal commissions. Among Mr. Vasquez's professional and civic activities are service on the National Advisory Board of the Salvation Army and the board of directors of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials. At the local level, he has served on the board of directors of the Orange County Council for the Boys Scouts of America, the National Conference for Community and Justice, the St. Joseph Hospital Foundation, and KOCE-TV Foundation (a PBS affiliate), and was a co-founder and honorary chairman of the Orange County Hispanic Education Fund, which has raised nearly $2 million to fund scholarships for Latino students in Orange County. Mr. Vasquez also served on the advisory board of the Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation and on the board of directors of Olive Crest, an organization dedicated to the protection and development of children and youth who are neglected, abandoned, and abused.A native of Carrizo Springs, Texas, Mr. Vasquez is the son of migrant farm workers of Mexican descent who instilled in him a strong work ethic and the value of always giving his utmost to any endeavor. Mr. Vasquez became the first member of his family to earn a college degree. He is a graduate of the University of Redlands and has served as a trustee professor at Chapman University.
http://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=Learn.whatispc.management.dir
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