Young and pretty with a blonde ponytail and a wide smile, Anita Fecht looked “like the public’s idea of a Peace Corps volunteer.” Until recently a college student and a member of the New Left, Fecht anticipated “the easiest and most natural identification” with Chilean students as she set off for Santiago in 1966. She was in for a rude shock. Far from offering friendship, “As a Peace Corps volunteer … the radical progressive students literally spit on me.” Following this experience and after working in community development, Fecht began to reassess her presence in Chile. Before long, she began attending the regular anti-Peace-Corps demonstrations taking place across Santiago – even though she was still a Peace Corps volunteer. This “of course made me feel very uncomfortable and very ambivalent about what I was doing in Chile.” Having arrived with good intentions, she now thought that “I should not have been in Chile, period.” Fecht returned to the United States radicalized.