La Carta Category: Alumni Spotlight

One of our Community Impact Project volunteers- Alana, from Austin, TX – shares about her experiences with AMIGOS and her service project about voting! Learn about the Community Impact Project here.   My name is Alana, and I was born and lived in Boston, MA for 11 years, but now I live in Austin, TX. … Read More

Anne Morriss (’94, ’95, ’96, ’97) and her wife Frances Frei recently published a book on leadership, Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader’s Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You. Anne is a serial entrepreneur and Frances is a professor at Harvard Business School. We had the chance to interview Anne about her life, career, and time with … Read More

One of our Community Impact Project volunteers- Saylor, from San Carlos, CA – shares about her experiences with AMIGOS in Panama and virtually, as well as her service project about mental health support! Learn about the Community Impact Project here.   In the summer of 2019, I went to Coclé, Panama with AMIGOS. When COVID-19 … Read More

One of our Community Impact Project volunteers- Simran, from Los Altos, CA- shares about her experiences with AMIGOS in Panama and virtually, as well as her service project! Learn about the Community Impact Project here.   I decided to join the Community Impact Project because I loved my experience with AMIGOS when I went to … Read More

One of our Community Impact Project volunteers- Blessing from Pérez Zeledón, San José, Costa Rica- shares about her experience building community on a virtual platform and the speaking English regularly with native speakers! Learn about the Community Impact Project here.   I decided to join the AMIGOS Community Impact project because I was in mid-term … Read More

Earlier this spring, AMIGOS joined the Houston Independent Student District’s inaugural Virtual Global Issues Summit. Organized by HISD Abroad, this event brought together students, parents, educators, and more from 22 countries to discuss global issues with a global audience. Passionate young leaders from HISD gave speeches on related topics, which were rated by spectators and … Read More

One of our Community Impact Project volunteers from Latin America, Valentina, shares about her experience exploring a new version of community and designing a service project to make her own impact! Learn more about the Community Impact Project here. Name: Valentina Hometown: Turbaco- Bolivar, Colombia. Why did you decide to join the Community Impact Project? … Read More

One of our Community Impact Project volunteers, Noura, shares about her experience exploring a new version of community and designing a service project to make her own impact! Learn more about the Community Impact Project here. Name: Noura M. Hometown: Sacramento, California Why did you decide to join the Community Impact Project? I saw this … Read More

Aidan joined the AMIGOS Gap Program in Cuenca, Ecuador. After returning to the U.S. a bit sooner than expected due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he wanted to find a way to keep up his Spanish. This inspired him to create his own language exchange program, a group of Spanish and English speakers who are trying … Read More

Just a few months left until summer is here! Our 2020 Amigos are getting excited for the adventure waiting for them in Latin America. Here are this week’s “Amigos of the Week” for March 9, 2020. This blog series highlights some of the incredible students joining us this summer. Here are this week’s Amigos: ASHLIE … Read More