My name is Alyssa and I am a graduate student at Rutgers-Newark, a Returned Peace Corps volunteer, and an AmeriCorps alum. I have worked with students in various capacities, including inner city mentoring in Newark NJ and a literacy and life skills director in the Peace Corps. My literacy work in the Peace Corps was the most rewarding job of all; I was working with students who could not even write their own name, and by the end of my program, they were writing short stories. My training c.