The Peace Corps posting that launched a career in transparency and public service.
From 2003 to 2005, Scott served with the Peace Corps in Georgetown, Guyana, where he led digital community media projects. Georgetown is Guyana's capital city, situated on the Atlantic coast at the mouth of the Demerara River — a colonial-era grid of canals and wooden buildings that marks the northeastern edge of South America.
The Peace Corps chapter was Scott's first major international posting and the beginning of his public-service career. Working in digital community media in a developing-world capital gave him both the skills and the orientation toward civic technology that would define his subsequent work. When the posting ended in 2005, he moved to Washington, D.C., where he continued building in the nonprofit technology sector.
Georgetown connects the Stadum family story to a broader arc of service — from the North Dakota homestead to the Atlantic coast of South America, the family's reach has always extended outward in search of work that matters.