Archive - April 18, 2023

On Thursday, April 20th, Rocky Mountain PBS will be airing A Towering Task across the state of Colorado. We are finally getting this Peace Corps story out to a broader television audience. For those of you in the area, tune in at 9pm Mountain Time (11pm Eastern Time). And if you live in Colorado (or want to travel to meet us there!), we are working on hosting a follow-up watch party in a couple of months at the Rocky Mountain PBS studios in Denver. Let us know if you want to be on our official invite list by emailing us at info@peacecorpsdocumentary.com. We hope you can join us in watching the broadcast, at the follow-up gathering, or both! And, of course, we are continuing to work with public television distributors across the country to bring A Towering Task to your local stations. Stay tuned for more information and how you can make sure your station airs the documentary. Director . . .

  RAY NAYLER (Turkmenistan 2003-05) was born on June 5, 1976 in Alma, Quebec. When he was three years old, his family moved to California. He attended the University of California at Santa Cruz, where he studied modern literature and developed an interest in semiotics, graduating in 1999. He lived in the Bay Area and Toronto and worked on various odd jobs before joining the Peace Corps and moving to Turkmenistan in 2003. He learned Russian there and later worked in Russia for an international NGO specializing in educational exchange. He lived in Moscow, then Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, from where he joined the US Foreign Service in 2010. He subsequently served in Vietnam, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, and Kosovo, living abroad for 20 years before returning to the US in 2022. He still works for the State Department, now on detail to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as their . . .