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Ben Bellows is a PhD student in reproductive health epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley and working with the Bay Area International Group on sustainable reproductive health services delivery in developing economies.

Ben served in the Peace Corps in Ecuador (1997-2000) where he was an animal husbandry specialist in the community of Chiguinda, province of Morona-Santiago near Cuenca.  In his final 18 months of service, he also worked in Quito as a program coordinator establishing new sites with community leaders and supporting PCVs in the field.  After service in Ecuador, Ben took a fellowship at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2001-2003) in the Division of International Health and Global AIDS Program developing training programs for HIV counseling and testing in Atlanta and at sites in Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, and Namibia.  He also consulted with the Namibian Ministry of Health to develop the national policy and guidelines on HIV counseling and testing (2003).

Ben received his Masters in Public Health May 2004 and continues at UC Berkeley as a Bixby doctoral fellow in the Division of Epidemiology.

Tad Baldwin, Vice-President

Tad was part of Ecuador 6, the first credit union group in ’63 to ‘65, working first in Atuntaqui, Imbabura and later in Quito, broadening into the handicraft program as well. After several years in Panama with CHF Services as housing advisor, he returned to a master’s program at Penn in Urban Planning.  Now retired and living in Washington, DC as an active volunteer, he spent most of his career producing affordable and mixed income housing in suburban Montgomery County, Maryland,  first for the local government and later as president of a non-profit he helped form. One of the early leaders in the original formation of FOE in 1981, he helped revive the group before the 2002 NPCA Conference in Washington.

Our current officers are as follows:

• Josh Busby ('97-99), President Bio
• Tad Baldwin ('63-'65), Vice-President
• Ben Bellows ('97-2000), Vice-President (Communications)
• Monique Ware ('95-97), Treasurer
• Laura Bird ('98-2000), Donations Coordinator

Josh Busby, President
Josh Busby is a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University's Center for Globalization and Governance. He will be a fellow and lecturer at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas-Austin beginning fall 2006. In 2004-2005, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. In 2003-2004, Josh was a research fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. He defended his PhD in Government from Georgetown University in August 2004 where he earlier earned an MA in International Relations in 2002. Josh has written extensively on developing country debt relief, climate change, HIV/AIDS, and American foreign policy. He is Term Member with the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a former member of the board of the National Peace Corps Association. Josh served in the Peace Corps in Ecuador (1997-1999) where he was an agricultural extensionist in the community of San José de Poaló near Ambato. He also worked in Nicaragua (Summer 1994, Spring 1996) and consulted for the Inter-American Development Bank (2000). Prior to the Peace Corps, he was a Marshall Scholar at the University of East Anglia (Norwich, England) where he completed a second BA (with Honors) in Development Studies (1993-1995). He completed his first BA (with Highest Distinction) at the University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill in Political Science and Biology.