GCSEN News

Meet GCSEN Alum Zara Salmon
Meet GCSEN Alum Zara Salmon
GCSEN’s tenth anniversary has been a great way to reach out to our alumni for this “Where Are They Now?” series. It’s enlightening to see the many ways our graduates’ lives... Read more...
GCSEN Alum Flor Najera: From Intern to Leader- and 40 Under 40 Honor!
GCSEN Alum Flor Najera: From Intern to Leader- and 40 Under 40 Honor!
Flor is a dedicated digital marketing strategist, Founder and President of Najera Studios and rising community leader in the lower Hudson Valley town of Fishkill, NY, who started her journey... Read more...
Where Are They Now? Catching Up With Sarah Alexander
Where Are They Now? Catching Up With Sarah Alexander
Sarah Alexander, 2016 GCSEN Wheaton Bootcamp Graduate, New Yorker and Social Entrepreneur in the Making Read more...
Checking in with Graduate Kyle McNicoll
Checking in with Graduate Kyle McNicoll
1st Decade Look Back- Where are they now? Kyle McNicoll is a graduate of the first GCSEN Foundation Social Entrepreneurship Bootcamp at Wheaton College in 2016.  Since then, he's spent time... Read more...
Starting Out with the Support of GCSEN
Starting Out with the Support of GCSEN
Here at the Network News, we talk a lot about graduates of the GCSEN programs, and their success stories once their projects are well underway. But this week we wanted... Read more...
Graduate Spotlight: Yana Averbukh
Graduate Spotlight: Yana Averbukh
1st Decade Look Back- Where are they now? Meet Yana! Yana Averbukh, a graduate of GCSEN’s first class hosted by Marist College School of Business, under the leadership of then-Dean... Read more...
gcsen and uvi cell logos with trisha james and Mike caslin
Meet GCSEN Rising Star: Trisha James
GCSEN Meaning Maker and GCSEN CARIBE Rising Star: Trisha James Above: Dr. Suzanne Magras, Director, Center for Excellence in Leadership and Learning, University of the Virgin Islands (HBCU) Trisha James... Read more...
Meet the Meaning Maker: Smith Wiltshire
Meet the Meaning Maker: Smith Wiltshire
Meet our UVI-CELL/GCSEN CARIBBE Campus Partner Program graduate, Smith Wiltshire, President, Smit T’s Barber and Beauty Parlor and Spa, LLC.  Above: Mike Caslin and Smith Wiltshire in front of Smit... Read more...
Meet our GCSEN Meaning Maker: Eliot Wilson UPDATE!
Meet our GCSEN Meaning Maker: Eliot Wilson UPDATE!
UPDATE, June '23: Check out this feature about FUTUR in Upstate House magazine!  Congratulations on the great coverage, Eliot! Eliot Wilson (Wheaton ‘21) is a Social Venture Boot Camp grad, one... Read more...
Meet GCSEN Caribe Graduate Monifa Potter!
Meet GCSEN Caribe Graduate Monifa Potter!
One of GCSEN’s 2022 Virgin Islands graduates is Monifa Potter, a mother, sister, and dedicated businesswoman who runs Paradise Bites, a mini-donut company. (You can see some of her delicious... Read more...
Meet GCSEN Caribe Graduate Michele Joshua!
Meet GCSEN Caribe Graduate Michele Joshua!
  GCSEN recently completed its first Campus Partnership class at UVI-CELL (University of the Virgin Islands Center for Excellence in Leadership and Learning), and we will be sharing with you... Read more...