sheila crowley

SHEILA CROWLEY ACTING PEACE CORPS DIRECTOR Sheila Crowley has served as Acting Director of the Peace Corps since January 2017. She brings to that role more than 25 years of public and privatesector experience, including leadership roles in international development, business, and the financial services industry. Most recently, Sheila served from 2015 to 2017 as Acting Associate Director of Peace Corps’ Office of Volunteer Recruitment and Selection (VRS), overseeing the recruitment, assessment, and placement of Peace Corps Volunteers worldwide. Previously, she held the position of Peace Corps Country Director, first in Romania and then in Indonesia, from 2010 to 2015. Sheila’s Peace Corps roots extend back to her service as a Volunteer in 2001 to 2003 in Ukraine, where she taught English, organized leadership and sports camps for youth, and worked at a refugee center. To this day, she considers her Peace Corps service as the toughest job she has ever held – and the experience that has most deeply transformed her life and career. Sheila’s career initially began in the corporate sector, including more than 10 years of professional experience with McKinsey & Company, the Mitchell Madison Group, and JP Morgan Securities, before deciding to pursue her long-held dream of serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer. After completing her Peace Corps service, Sheila worked for five years with Habitat for Humanity International as Associate Director of the Global Village program and as a Director in the Office of Volunteer Mobilization. She helped to lead volunteer program design, global collaboration, and policy development for Habitat’s domestic and international programs until 2010, when she returned to the Peace Corps. Sheila holds a bachelor’s degree in history and Russian studies from The Pennsylvania State University and a master’s degree in information science from Drexel University.

As of April 2017