
VACorps Testimonials
What is it like to be a participant of VACorps?
Laila Wheeler, California, USA (2023)
Laila Wheeler is studying Public Affairs, Education, and Sociology at the University of California Los Angeles. She participated in a human rights internship from June [...]
Innogen Naylor, Vermont, USA (2023)
Innogen joined the VACorps Program as part of her Gap Year in January 2023 and participated in an internship at a local school for learners [...]
Avital Strauss, Illinois, USA (2023)
Avital joined the VACorps PRogram as part of her Gap Year in January 2023 and participated in an internship at an NGO that supports [...]
William Monkarsh, California, USA (2023)
Will joined the VACorps Program in January 2023, as part of his GAP year, and participated in an internship at an eco-tourism company in [...]
Clancy Erickson, North Carolina, USA (2022)
Clancy recently completed her BA in Human Services Studies at Elon University. She joined the VACorps program in September 2022, and participate in an [...]
Dylan DeRosa, New York, USA (2023)
Dylan joined the VACorps program in January 2023 as part of his Gap Year and participated in a human rights law internship. "Cape Town [...]
Sam Brabeck, Massachusetts, USA (2023)
Sam joined the VACorps program in January 2023 and participated in a public health and counseling internship at an NGO that supports mothers and [...]
Alena Powell, New Jersey, USA (2023)
Alena joined the VACorps program n January 2023 as part of her Gap year and participated in a journalism internship at a local radio [...]
Carson Ireland-Latimer
Carson joined the VACorps Program in January 2023 as part of his Gap year and participated in an internship at a bike shop. "Interning [...]
Sara Hobbs, London, United Kingdom, (2023)
Sara is studying Occupational Therapy at St George's University of London. She joined the VACorps program on January 2023 and participated in an OT [...]
Douwe Wassink, Netherlands, (2023)
Douwe is studying for a bachelor's degree in business administration from HAN University of Applied Sciences. He joined the VACorps Program in September 2022 [...]
Chris Doe, Massachussets, USA (2023)
Chris joined the VACorps program in January 2023 as part of his Gap year and participated in a human rights internship. I decided to [...]
Nico Theunissen, New York, USA (2023)
Nico joined the VACorps Program in January 2023 as part of his Gap year and participated in an internship at a clean energy engineering [...]
Derya Tunçaral, Istanbul, Turkey (2023)
Derya is a recent graduate of Istanbul Bilgi University where he earned his bachelor's in International Relations. He joined the VACorps program in November [...]
Isabelle Ryan, Illinois, USA (2023)
Isabelle joined the VACorps Program in January 2023 as part of her Gap year and participated in a business internship. "Originally, I was nervous [...]
Alize Serez, Istanbul, Turkey, (2023)
Aliza has recently earned a bachelor's degree in International Relations from Istanbul Bilgi University. She joined the VACorps Program in September 2022 and participated [...]
Carley Adams, Ontario, Canada, (2023)
Carley is a recent MSc graduate of the University of Edinburgh, specializing in Medical Anthropology. She joined the VACorps Program in January 2023 and [...]
Spencer Meyers, New York, USA (2023)
Spencer joined the VACorps Program as part of his Gap Year and participated in a media internship at a local television station. "My experience [...]
Pallavi Bhargava, Maryland, USA (2023)
Pallavi joined the VACorps Program as part of her Gap Year and participated in a human rights internship. "The last 2.5 months in Cape [...]
Jonah Lieberman, Massachusetts, USA (2023)
Jonah joined the VACorps Program in January 2023 and participated in a journalism internship at a local radio station. "I chose VACorps because I [...]
Coco Israel, California, USA (2023)
Coco joined the Vacorps Program in January 2023 as part of her Gap year and participated in an architecture internship. "VACorps was an amazing [...]