Interview with Mark Rackiewycz, February 13, 2024
Project: Peace Corps: The Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Abstract: Mark Rackiewycz Ukraine 2002-2005 Before joining Peace Corps, Rackiewycz was a commercial realtor. He worked in a non-profit organization in the Ivano-Frankivsk region that taught women entrepreneurship. In that setting, he wrote grants to help clients launch their businesses, as well as facilitating training workshops on such topics as time management, marketing, customer service, business plans and lease writing. Rackiewycz extended his service for one year to complete the grants that the group had been awarded. In Kharkiv, he taught business English; in Crimea, he taught business practices in Russian to local business people. He also wrote a grant for the local chess club in Ivano-Frankivsk so that it had chess sets, clocks and tables on which to compete. As a result of his service, Rackiewycz learned that he is creative and resilient and is a survivor. After service, he remained in Ukraine with his family for 22 years, returning to the States in 2023, after serving as a journalist there.Interview Accession
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Rackiewycz, Mark Interview by Peggy Walton. 13 Feb. 2024. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Rackiewycz, M. (2024, February 13). Interview by P. Walton. Peace Corps: The Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Rackiewycz, Mark, interview by Peggy Walton. February 13, 2024, Peace Corps: The Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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