• Chairman of the Board at Indiana Center for Middle East Peace, Inc.

• Board of directors at SOLA—School of Leadership, Afghanistan

• Chief operating officer at Friends of Afghanistan

• Peace Corps Volunteer, Afghanistan 1972-75

Non-Profit 501c3 Tax Exempt, Corporation Treasurer, Board Director and Developer of Distance Education. Technology Expert in Higher Education:

40 years experience, teaching, selling, managing people, and technology; implementing technologies in many different industries, including higher education, insurance, manufacturing, and consulting. Retired 2015
 

Anthony Agnello currently serves as President of the Friends of Afghanistan,  (FoA) the national organization of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers from this strategically important nation. FoA, in alliance with community groups and student service organizations, has sent books, school supplies and computers to Afghanistan. They also have helped to fund the construction of six schools for Afghan girls in addition to numerous other educational outreach projects. FoA supports SOLA, the School of Leadership-Afghanistan, in Kabul and a gender equity weaving project in Bamiyan along with RPCV Louise Pascale’s Afghan Children’s Songbook Project. The group provides disaster relief in the region, through author Khaled Hosseini’s Foundation.

Mr. Agnello, who received the 2013 Clifford Harkins Alumni Award at Northern Arizona University for distinguished humanitarian service, is a co-founder of the Peace Corps Alliance for Intercultural Understanding, an organization that is dedicated to providing resources and guidance to RPCVs that will enable them to engage in instructive dialogue designed to identify and address racism, bigotry, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.

 Friends of Afghanistan Board Secretary 2012 – Present
 Friends of Afghanistan Newsletter Editor 2013 – 2022, Co-Editor 2022 - Present
 Friends of Afghanistan Bazaar Fundraiser Coordinator since 2010
 Trinidad School Board Trustee 2013 - 2023
 Trinidad Civic Club Co-President 2018 – Present
 Trinidad Bay Art & Music Festival Board Member 2022 - Present
 Peace Corps Volunteer, Afghanistan 1970 – 72, English-Speaking Secretarial Training Program at Kabul University

Retired after 30 years of public school teaching, mostly at the kindergarten/first grade level. Taught history methodology for 5 years as an adjunct professor at Humboldt State University in the Elementary Education Credential Program while supervising apprentice teachers doing fieldwork in elementary classrooms for 9 years.

Served as Co-President of the Trinidad Civic Club since 2018, a non-profit community service organization, founded in 1913. Saved the Trinidad Memorial Lighthouse from coastal erosion, then served on the leadership team to build a beautiful monument to those lost or buried at sea, while raising almost $600,000 in 8 years from the community for construction.

Retired Anesthesiologist Assistant; retired Foreign Service Officer

Savannah, Georgia, United States 

President, Philip E. Smith Interior Design, Inc.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States  

Communications Leadership Strategist

United States 

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