Recently, our creative and proficient copywriter and project manager, Corenna VanderWeele, decided to move on from Cultivate. While Cultivate is already missing her contributions and incredible talents, we couldn’t be more excited for her next steps. Corenna left for Huaycan, Peru in mid-January to volunteer with start up non-profit The Light and Leadership Initiative.

The Light and Leadership Initiative (LLI) was founded in 2008 as an education-based, non-profit organization with the mission of responding specifically to the needs of women and children in Huaycan, of the Alte-Vitarte District in Lima, Peru. This past year, LLI has been hard at work getting to know the community it serves and building a solid base of educational programs in an area that could easily be characterized as having extreme … Read More