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RPCV & Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Writes His Peace Corps Memoir (Costa Rica)

RPCV & Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Writes His Peace Corps Memoir (Costa Rica)

  From Mid Hudson News April 10, 2020 Hudson Valley resident and four-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee David Taylor Ives (Costa Rica 1980-82) has announced that his new memoir, American Dreamer is available for purchase. The book captures memories of Ives’s experiences of a Peace Corps volunteer – the time spent working in schools and community gardens in impoverished parts of the world, and how the opportunity paved the way to Ives becoming a global humanitarian. Since the early days in the Peace Corps, the author has worked with leaders like President Jimmy Carter and the Dalai Lama, served as the senior advisor to the Permanent Secretariat of the Summits of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, and become well-known for his speeches about humanitarian issues, which he delivers as to generate interest in the world peace initiatives with which he’s involved throughout the world. According to Ives, “American Dreamer gave me . . .

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