Yoomie Huynh served as Peace Corps volunteer in Mongolia from 2007 to 2009 in community youth development. She later also served as a Peace Corps Response volunteer in the Republic of Georgia from 2013 to 2014. She talks about being a first generation immigrant growing up in a poor Vietnamese household in Sioux City, Iowa, and volunteering as a teenager. In Darkhan, Mongolia, Huynh worked as a social worker, assisted the kindergarten program, and taught life skills with the Asian Child Support organization. With Peace Corps Response in Tbilisi, Georgia, she served as a youth program development consultant with the Children and Youth National Center, a public entity under the Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs. This experience set her on a career path in policy and politics. After the Peace Corps, Huynh worked in Tajikistan for the International Organization for Migration on such issues as human trafficking, child labor, gender issues, and reintegration programs. Interviewed and recorded by Evelyn Ganzglass, July 1, 2019. 2 digital audio files (web streaming files combined into 1 file).