Jeremy Slezak, speaker at the Annual Meeting in December, is a recent staff member at Partners of the Americas in Washington, DC, but has had previous experience in International work, as a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras, and he worked for USAID, developing ways volunteers can connect with professional groups. Now at POA, he is working in the area of Resource Development, helping to coordinate with Partners chapters in various program areas. He spoke of the American Fellows program for professionals to have a paid “internship”, either from the , going to an area in South or Central America, or the Caribbean or from one of the southern areas, coming to the north. He suggested the possibility of linking to projects currently being done in the partnerships. A stay of 2 to 3 months in usual.