She is a native of Michigan and studied her undergraduate degree at Boston College, and Master’s degrees in Global Policy Studies and Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
Allison has a long-standing commitment to El Salvador. She first studied abroad with the Casa de la Solidaridad in 2005, earned a Fulbright fellowship to study migration here in 2007, and since then has primarily lived and worked in the country.
Monet Gonnerman is also an alum from the Casa de la Solidaridad program where she now currently serves as a Community Coordinator. She is from Portland, Oregon and graduated from Santa Clara University this past spring.
With 56 scholarships for us to manage, Monet will primarily support our work with communication between children, their families and their sponsors.
We are very grateful for Monet’s extra support and positive presence!