In 1964, he served as the Executive Assistant to Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr., focusing his efforts on issues related to poverty and hunger under the newly created Office of Economic Opportunity.
After obtaining his B.A., he was a special assistant at the Office of Economic Opportunity.
She earned her law degree in 1969 from George Washington University Law School and worked for the Office of Economic Opportunity in the Legal Services Administration while she was still in school.
After graduation from college she worked at the Office of Economic Opportunity in Washington, D.C. which helped trigger her interest in working with people.
The key OEO institution was the community action program (CAP), bestowed with the unusually energetic congressional mission statement of “a program which mobilizes and utilizes resources... in an attack on poverty.”
He then spent two years as Program Director of Operation Crossroads Africa before going to work as Director of Pennsylvania Operations for the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) in Washington, D.C. He subsequently became Deputy Director of the Research and Demonstration division at the Office of Economic Opportunity.
In 1975, the Office of Economic Opportunity of the State of California hired Peter Turnley to produce a photographic documentary on poverty in California.
In the late 1960s she became a staff member of the U.S. Department of Education and later the Office of Economic Opportunity.
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The Indian Education Act of 1972 and Office of Economic Opportunity programs of the 1964 Act provided new resources for tribes to provide adult education.