Charles Conklin works as the Country Representative to Cambodia and Myanmar for Mennonite Central Committee (MCC). In this role, Charles supervises humanitarian aid, community development, and peacebuilding initiatives with MCC teams and local partners in both countries. Charles also supervises a voluntary service exchange program that places young people from around the world at volunteer placements in Cambodia and sends young people out from Cambodia, Myanmar, and Vietnam out to volunteer placements around the world. Charles has over 15 years of experience in nonprofit administration and management.
Charles belongs to the Mennonite Church—a Christian Pacifist denomination recognized as one of the three historic Peace Churches—who originally studied Computer Science. In the 2000s, Charles signed up to serve for three years of Mennonite voluntary service in rural Cambodia and this experience sparked a lasting commitment to holistic development, just economics, peacebuilding, multicultural exchange, the global church, and technologies that uplift people—not commoditize them. In particular, Charles is interested in projects, programs, and technologies that connect people in meaningful ways across traditional barriers—such as language, culture, ability, geography.
