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Tino Calabia
As President Kennedy began inspiring the world from the White House, Tino Calabia answered the call to serve as a Peace Corps Volunteer. After teaching in Peru, he returned to New ...view moreAs President Kennedy began inspiring the world from the White House, Tino Calabia answered the call to serve as a Peace Corps Volunteer. After teaching in Peru, he returned to New York where he had earlier earned a Columbia University Master's in English. Helping to launch the War on Poverty, he introduced programs like Head Start in the South Bronx. Recruited into New York City government, he soon directed community-based projects throughout many of the City's poverty neighborhoods.
Moving to Washington in 1975, where he earlier won literary prizes as a Georgetown University student, he continued serving minorities through Federal civil rights work. As a volunteer, he rated foreign high school applicants vying for scholarships to study in the U.S., and then, during the year, counseled students and their host families. Visiting Russia, Ukraine, and other former Soviet Union nations, he led seminars for alumni of Senator Bill Bradley's initiative, the Future Leaders Exchange Program.
He lives near Washington, his birthplace, with his wife, an international advocate for refugees and internally displaced persons. Both rack up air and road miles visiting their children and grandchildren. One son studied and worked for four years in Europe. A second son worked for four years in Japan and just completed his seventh as a Foreign Service officer in South America. A daughter studied in London, worked in Manhattan's hospitality industry, and is now earning a Masters at Oxford University.view less