John Stauffer

John, a member of WPC since 1959, served as a Peace Corps teacher in Eritrea in East Africa. He is co-founder of The America Team for Displaced Eritreans, a nonprofit organization that assists refugees and those seeking asylum from Eritrea, including those still in refugee camps or in flight. Since 2009, WPC has sponsored two Eritrean refugee families now living in Upper Darby and provides funds for the organization. John led a panel of experts in a discussion of Eritrean refugees at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ annual consultation for non-governmental organizations in Geneva, Switzerland on July 2, 2015. Several days later, he testified about Eritrea before the United States House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations in Washington, DC. Since his retirement from Rohm and Haas in 2006, John has worked full time for Eritrean refugee needs.