Clinton School graduate Hallie Shoffner (’11) will spend eight weeks this summer in Peru working on a project to develop capacity for Minga Peru, an organization that works to create social change by empowering women who live in the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest.
This will be a return trip to Peru for Shoffner, who worked with Minga Peru this past year for her final Clinton School Capstone project. Minga Peru creates radio broadcasts and hosts workshops to engage women on topics such as sexual and reproductive health, family violence and women’s rights.
Shoffner will work in the Minga Peru office in Lima and spend time in the Amazon jungle where she will cultivate partners to help develop and expand the organization’s programs.
Shoffner first encountered Minga Peru while she was working with the Center for the Promotion and Defense of Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Lima for her Clinton School international project.