When Joanna Lewis ’17 was thinking about what she would do with her newly minted degree in environmental engineering, she didn’t turn to a big firm or local municipality. She joined the Peace Corps.

In July, Lewis leaves for Panama, a country, she says, that came with the job description. “I was looking for a job where I could use my environmental engineering skills and that happened to be in Panama,” Lewis says, adding that a desire to become fluent in Spanish drew her to Latin America.

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