AltruVistas’ Blog
Aloha Aina! Food First’s Marilyn Borchardt and the Hawaiian Food Sovereignty Movement
AltruVistas is proud to be offering the Aloha Aina Food Sovereignty Tour on Oahu, Hawaii, July 19-27, 2018. We spoke with Marilyn Borchardt, who has worked with our partner organization [...]
Storytelling as Connection: An Interview With Documentary Photographer and Journey Leader Beb Reynol
Beb Reynol is a French photojournalist living in Seattle. He’s worked in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and is now leading documentary photography tours in partnership with AltruVistas, with upcoming 2018 journeys [...]
AltruVistas Joins Travel Professionals Petition to U.S. Department of State To Lessen Cuba Travel Warning
In early September 2017, the U.S. Department of State began a drawdown of staff in the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba, which, after reports of [...]
Meet the Team: Natalia Poida, Operations Director and Educational Journeys Coordinator
Hi Natalia! Tell us a bit about yourself and your life before AltruVistas. I was born in San Jose, Costa Rica, and as a child I studied at the [...]
Update from the Media Day in Havana by Cicely Sanchez, AltruVistas Cuba Program Director
Hi everyone, Did not want to miss the opportunity to share this with you all, who are actually part of the chain of showing the beauty, the knowledge and the [...]
La Jornada with Jesus Puerto: Celebrating Cuban LGBTQ Rights and Intercultural Exchange
Entrepreneur Jesus Puerto is the owner of New Haven, CT’s Soul de Cuba Cafe and the director of the Cubanakoa Foundation. He’ll be leading May’s AltruVistas journey to the International Day Against Homophobia in Cuba, [...]