Incoming DR Peace Corps Director is Dr. Romeo Massey
Submitted on Fri, 06/10/2005 - 04:05.
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Dr. Massey's Biographical Sketch
After receiving a BA degree from the University of Florida in Political Science/Latin American Regional Studies, Romeo Massey served as a Peace Corps Volunteer (10/62-09/64) in Pereira, Colombia, where he taught English and worked in urban community development. After two years of establishing Job Corps centers in the US, he returned to the Peace Corps (03/67-03/70) as an Associate Peace Corps Director in the Brazilian states of Bahia and Sergipe where he supervised 85-120 volunteers in urban/rural community development, health education, primary school teacher training, and adult literacy.
Upon return to the US, Romeo attended Florida State University (FSU) where he received an MS in Adult Education/Literacy and a PhD in Adult Education/Instructional Systems Design and Development. Since 1973, he has worked in various leadership positions in contract-supported R&D centers at FSU and has been a center director for the past 13 years. His international work includes consultant work in El Salvador, and Honduras for USAID; Uganda for CARE; and Belize where he worked with CARE for eight years planning and evaluating the revision of the nation's rural primary school system. He also worked as a Peace Corps Training Director and Acting PC Program/Training Officer in Brazil.
His wife Carole is a returned PCV (Bolivia) who has a BS in Psychology, MS in Counseling and PhD in Higher Education Administration. Carole has over 20 years experience as a program evaluator and did international evaluation work in Guatemala for USAID. Romeo and Carole have an adult son, Christopher, who lives in Florida.
After receiving a BA degree from the University of Florida in Political Science/Latin American Regional Studies, Romeo Massey served as a Peace Corps Volunteer (10/62-09/64) in Pereira, Colombia, where he taught English and worked in urban community development. After two years of establishing Job Corps centers in the US, he returned to the Peace Corps (03/67-03/70) as an Associate Peace Corps Director in the Brazilian states of Bahia and Sergipe where he supervised 85-120 volunteers in urban/rural community development, health education, primary school teacher training, and adult literacy.
Upon return to the US, Romeo attended Florida State University (FSU) where he received an MS in Adult Education/Literacy and a PhD in Adult Education/Instructional Systems Design and Development. Since 1973, he has worked in various leadership positions in contract-supported R&D centers at FSU and has been a center director for the past 13 years. His international work includes consultant work in El Salvador, and Honduras for USAID; Uganda for CARE; and Belize where he worked with CARE for eight years planning and evaluating the revision of the nation's rural primary school system. He also worked as a Peace Corps Training Director and Acting PC Program/Training Officer in Brazil.
His wife Carole is a returned PCV (Bolivia) who has a BS in Psychology, MS in Counseling and PhD in Higher Education Administration. Carole has over 20 years experience as a program evaluator and did international evaluation work in Guatemala for USAID. Romeo and Carole have an adult son, Christopher, who lives in Florida.
