Ordinary People, Extraordinary Elections A Memoir of International Democracy Builders

Lois Ann Nicolai is the author of a three-book "Memoir Trilogy". This second book in her trilogy is ORDINARY PEOPLE, EXTRAORDINARY ELECTIONS; A MEMOIR OF INTERNATIONAL DEMOCRACY BUILDING. It is the story of the fifteen years she spent traveling into developing European countries helping the OSCE/PAE create new democracies.

It is an enjoyable and enlightening book for all ages to enjoy.

The countries she spent two or three assignments in were Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Moldova, Republic of Georgia and Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan. In her final chapter she invited five men and five women colleagues to each write an essay about one of the most interesting missions they participated in as election observers and registration officers. Their stories are amazing.

It is the authors desire to succeed in inspiring high school officials to encourage their high school students to choose to read these three books, which are true accounts from 1988 through 2014. This was a very remarkable, historical era as communism ended and global democracies were evolving.

Lois Nicolai is a former teacher; Girl Scout Troop Organizer, Leader and Day Camp Director; Indiana State Champions ASA Girls Softball Coach; Detasseling Supervisor for Pioneer Seed Corn Fields; International Organizer/Supervisor of OSCE/PAE Democratic Elections in ten developing countries of Western Europe; Founder and Director of World Citizen Diplomats in Princeton, NJ which led to seven trips into former Soviet Republics during the fall of Communism through Perestroika and Glasnost; and wife for twenty-plus years.
Today she is a widowed mother of six living her dream retirement years on the Jersey Seashore enjoying heart-warming visits with her six children, eighteen grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren.
In her first of a three-part "Memoir Trilogy", ORDINARY PEOPLE, EXTRAORDINARY TIMES; A MEMOIR OF ONE CITIZEN ACTIVIST, that was released in October 2020, she recounts a traumatic turning point in her life that leads her into three years of soul-searching. The results casts her into a new realm of life on her 50th birthday.
Lois's writing is an honest and engaging memoir for all age readers.
This second book in her trilogy is ORDINARY PEOPLE, EXTRAORDINARY ELECTIONS; A MEMOIR OF INTERNATIONAL DEMOCRACY BUILDING, the book you are about to read. It is the fifteen years she spent traveling into ten developing European countries helping the OSCE/PAE creating new democracies.
She is now writing her final memoir in this trilogy, which is ORDINARY PEOPLE, EXTRAORDINARY TIMES; A MEMOIR OF WORLD CITIZEN DIPLOMATS. She tells about the Soviet-American Peace Walk in 1988 and the Bridges for Peace Exchange with Volgograd, Russia in 1989, plus many World Citizen adventures.