Meet Our Board Members & Volunteers

After teaching for ten years, Maureen became a Peace Corps Volunteer in Colombia. When she returned to the United States she joined the board of Appalachian Volunteers, Inc. and started numerous community service programs at Helen Keller Middle School in Easton, CT. Since 1985 she has served on the board or been president of Connecticut Returned Peace Corps Volunteers where she helped create the CTRPCV Community Service Fund Grant Program for PCVs and RPCVs who are involved in local or international service projects. She is also an elected member of the Connecticut Education Association – Retired advisory board.

In 1996, Maureen started attending mass at the Grange where she has found her spiritual home. The caring and kindness of the community is observable in the multitude of community service projects that church members have created or support. The summer of 2002, Maureen joined a concerned Quest for Peace group who were traveling to Nicaragua to witness the various projects that CT Quest for Peace help to support. After the whirlwind tour of Nicaragua, Maureen stayed for a month to work with a school for street boys in Granada. This was a humbling experience because one always receives so much more than one gives.

Maureen joined the board of CT Quest for Peace with the following credentials: an MA in Corporate and Political Communications, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT; an MS in Secondary Education, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT; a BA in English, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT; and has attended the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain and the Sociedad de Entrenamiento y Assessoria, Ltda., Bogotá, Colombia for intensive coursework in language ans cultural studies in Spanish.