Exchange alumni getting down to business

I interviewed a Program Officer at this NGO, UNITER, and she told me that HALF of their staff are American exchange program alumni - either IREX-UNDERGRAD or FLEX. She is an alumn of FLEX 2001, I think. When asked if she felt she took this job because of her exchange experience, she answered that her FLEX experience was the defining experience her life that brought her to a career in activism. Pretty impressive.