After obtaining a Master of Arts in Management from Hamline in 2006, Edgar Alfonso expected to return home to Venezuela to teach international management. Alfonso, who earned a law degree in 1993 and had spent 11 years teaching legal courses at Venezuelan universities, decided instead to pursue a doctorate in education from Hamline.
He’s found rewarding work as the scholarship fund program director for the Latino Economic Development Center, a Minneapolis nonprofit that creates economic opportunity for Latinos. Alfonso is in charge of promoting the program to high school and community organizations. “I’m so glad to be providing Latino youth with increased access to higher education,” he says.
Alfonso, a baseball fanatic, lives in St. Paul with his wife Monica and their son and says he was greatly influenced by his parents, both of whom were educators. “In Venezuela, I provided legal advice to low-income families and volunteered for community programs for children. Here, I volunteer at a magnet school helping children in reading and math. I was taught that even more important than personal success is the greater good.”
