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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Selena Wallace, 23, of Minot, Maine, has been accepted into the Peace Corps and departed for the Philippines in June to begin training as a coastal resource management volunteer. Wallace will live and work in a community, providing education and support for environmental and marine conservation, according to a news release from the Peace Corps.
Wallace is the second generation in her family to serve in the Peace Corps in the Philippines. Her father, Bill Wallace, was a fisheries volunteer there from 1977 to 1979. “I was inspired at a young age because of my dad’s stories of his service in the Philippines. Since pursuing my degree in environmental studies, I have become especially motivated to work in natural resource conservation and environmental protection,” said Wallace.
Wallace is a graduate of St. Andrew’s School in Middletown, Del., and Northeastern University in Boston, where she earned a bachelor of arts in environmental studies and international affairs this year. Before entering the Peace Corps, she studied abroad in New Zealand and tutored at the Lewiston Public Library in Lewiston, Maine.
During the first three months of her service, Wallace will live with a host family in the Philippines to become fully immersed in the country’s language and culture. After acquiring the necessary skills to assist her community, Wallace will be sworn into service and assigned to a community in the Philippines, where she will live and work for two years with the local people.
“I am very excited to meet my host families and to learn more about Filipino language and culture through immersion,” said Wallace, “I want to know what the work on the ground looks like.”
Wallace will work in cooperation with the local people and partner organizations on sustainable, community-based development projects that improve the lives of people in the Philippines and help Wallace develop leadership, technical and cross-cultural skills that will give her a competitive edge when she returns home. Peace Corps volunteers return from service as global citizens well-positioned for professional opportunities in today’s global job market.
Wallace joins 52 Maine residents serving in the Peace Corps, and more than 1,905 Maine residents who have served in the Peace Corps since 1961, according to the release.
