Profile: Erin Guttenplan

Erin believes in the potential of international service to foster global understanding between people and nations. She created Edge of Seven because she has worked with communities in need in the developing world. She has also met volunteers who want to serve in any capacity, big or small. Erin believes that Edge of Seven is an affordable vehicle to harness the potential in connecting the two. The opportunity can be seen in volunteers working side by side locals to build new schools, it can be seen in a teacher connecting with a student, and it can be seen in one woman empowering another to shape her own future. It is flashes of progress like these, multiplied, that actually change the world.