In the fall of 1963, a man with a bullhorn showed up at Sather Gate and changed Maureen Orth’s (B.A. Political Science ‘64) life.
He was recruiting for the newly minted Peace Corps, and Orth—a self-described news junkie who had studied six years of French and not a word of Spanish—had just one condition: “Have you got programs for urban people?”
They did. A few months after graduating, she was on a plane to a city she had never heard of, Medellín, Colombia, with no idea that decision would define the next six decades of her life.
More than 60 years later, she has...
