Coined a “Serial Volunteer” by a former employee of VSO International, Ms. Jeana Baker is a business development and international development professional whose career has been shaped through nearly 20 years of global volunteering across eight international assignments. Her journey began in 2006 with the Peace Corps in northern Benin, where she wrote her first grant supporting a youth tropical beekeeping income-generation project. After earning a Master’s of Agriculture degree from Auburn University in 2012, where her research focused on the impacts of the 2010 Gulf oil spill on seafood processing and tourism, she travelled to Ireland and later joined VSO International as a volunteer in Uganda supporting climate change programming. Fluent in French, Ms Baker has supported social entrepreneurs in Haiti, implemented food security programming in Togo, evaluated education programs in Papua New Guinea, and reviewed Ebola response projects in Sierra Leone. She has also supported livelihoods restoration efforts for internally displaced populations in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and most recently evaluated a SIDA-funded migration project for International Organisation for Migration in Ethiopia. Raised in rural Idaho, USA, she values wide open spaces, hiking, and continued connections to Ireland.