“When I joined Peace Corps in 1983, I was willing to do anything: build houses, dig ditches. Instead, Peace Corps asked me to teach English in the Central African Republic. I remember my first day of teaching. I was stunned. One hundred students were jammed into the room (some climbing through the windows), eager to learn from me! By the time my two years were up, I wasn’t a great teacher, but I was hooked. I loved what education could do to build people’s futures, and was enamored of this thing called international development. Thirty-five years later, I am still working with children and their teachers throughout Africa and the developing world—now more as a technician than as a teacher, but with the same conviction that education can change lives. It changed mine!” – STS’s President and Co-Founder, Mark Lynd