La Carta Category: Alumni Spotlight

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

Are you excited for summer yet? Our 2020 Amigos definitely are! Here is our “Amigos of the Week” for February 24, 2020. This blog series highlights some of the awesome students joining us this summer. Here are this week’s Amigos: Guadalupe “Lupita” Project: Santa Elena, Ecuador Location: San Diego, CA Favorite food: Pancit, a Filipino … Read More

Summer is getting closer, and our 2020 Amigos are already starting to pack for their adventures! We are so excited to showcase some of these young leaders heading to Latin America this summer with  “Amigos of the Week,” a blog series highlighting some of the awesome students joining us this summer. Here are this week’s … Read More

In 2018, AMIGOS founded the Guy Bevil Legacy Society, named after the founder of AMIGOS, Guy Bevil. The purpose of this Society is to honor and unite legacy donors for their commitments to AMIGOS and our future. Legacy giving is a momentous personal step for members of our donor community. To leave AMIGOS a legacy gift is to include us in one’s will and estate plans and, hence, one’s legacy to this world.   Marvin Trotter, an … Read More

Cutter Dawes is an AMIGOS alum from the Marin Chapter in California. After completing the Chimborazo, Ecuador project in 2017, Cutter continued his volunteer work in his community in California. Because of his dedicated work, he won a Volunteer of the Year Award at the annual Heart of Marin Awards. Learn more about his AMIGOS … Read More

Jorge Poveda, a former AMIGOS Youth Ambassadors Program Coordinator and Associate Project Director, shares his experience building young leaders as well as how to expand your global perspective with AMIGOS.   What AMIGOS programs have you participated in? I traveled from Ecuador to the U.S. guiding 13 young leaders on the Youth Ambassadors Program in … Read More

We caught up with AMIGOS alum Steve Schafer (Paraguay 1990) to ask him some questions! Steve is the author of The Border, a story about four Mexican teens who flee to the US through the scorching Sonoran desert after getting caught in the cross fire of the narco-violence along the US/Mexico border. Steve has a … Read More

AMIGOS alumni are not ones to shy away from a challenge. Getting out of your comfort zone and traveling to a new country are two essential parts of the AMIGOS experience. Alum Dorn Wenninger took that to heart: from January 30 through February 5, 2018, he completed 7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days! … Read More

Dorn Wenninger Runs for AMIGOS 7 Marathons on 7 Continents in 7 Days   AMIGOS alumni do some pretty incredible things. Five-time alum Dorn Wenninger is getting ready to run a marathon in Antarctica. Then run another marathon the following day in South Africa. Then another in Austraila. And that’s just the beginning; he’ll be … Read More

Alumni Spotlight: Dr. Taylor Surles from AMIGOS to Doctors without BorderS We had the opportunity to connect with Dr. Taylor Surles, who was an AMIGOS participant in Mexico. Curious about the impact his experience had, we asked if he always knew he wanted to be a doctor.  “I had an inkling that I wanted to something … Read More