Extra-Ordinary Woman: Juliet Sorensen

Women of Peace Corps Legacy interviews an “Extra-Ordinary Woman”, Juliet Sorensen, the recipient of the 2025 Deborah Harding Women of Achievement Award. Juliet was a maternal and child health Peace Corps Volunteer in southeastern Morocco from 1995 to 1997.

Featured Guest:
Juliet Sorensen is a clinical professor of law and the director of the Rule of Law Institute and Program in Rule of Law for Development at Loyola University Chicago. Prior to joining the faculty of Loyola, Juliet was on faculty at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, where she founded and directed the Northwestern Access to Health Project, a global, community-based partnership at the intersection of health, human rights, and development. Juliet also served for five years as the executive director of Injustice Watch, a nonprofit journalism organization that investigates systemic inequities in the court system. A Chicagoan since 2003, Juliet was an Assistant United States Attorney from 2003 to 2010, focused on public corruption, complex fraud, and human rights. She is a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia University School of Law.

Podcast Host:
Kathleen Corey is past president of Women of Peace Corps Legacy.  She spent sixteen years with Peace Corps getting her start as a Volunteer in Liberia.  She has been Country Director in North Macedonia and Sri Lanka and held various headquarter positions responsible for opening Peace Corps China, Cambodia, and numerous countries in the Former Soviet Union.  As a retired diplomat, she currently teaches various courses to Department of State employees at the U.S. Foreign Service Institute.

Women of Peace Corps Legacy (WPCL) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to advance women and girls empowerment to create a more just, equitable, inclusive, and safe world for future generations.  WPCL seeks to partner with and highlight the work of those existing organizations and programs that are effectively addressing the issues of women and girls.