Cassady Walters is a 2004 graduate of South Eugene High School. After graduating from Whitman College in 2008, she served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Mali from 2008-2010. She then returned to Mali in 2011 as a Peace Corps Response Volunteer to work with the USAID youth-development project PAJE-Nièta. In the fall she will attend the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies to pursue a masters in international affairs.