In episode 17, I'm speaking with Toni Gale about her Peace Corps service in Ukraine from 2017-2019. Toni speaks about the challenges of being a professional woman in a country where business is male-dominant. She also speaks about the close relationship that formed between her and her host family. 

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Toni's Recommendations:

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933 by Anne Applebaum

Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom documentary

Works by Taras Shevchenko

Works by Ivan Franco