Member Profiles

N2N-Holyoke member, Virgenmina Perez, highlights N2N accomplishments in economic justice and health care that have impacted the lives of thousands throughout the state.

LIke many of her fellow citizens, Mirza “Michi” Barrientos’s life was marked by the war that shattered her country in the 1980’s. Confrontations between the army and the Guatemalan guerrillas forced the closing of the center where she was studying. However, that didn’t stop her from finishing the career of her dreams and becoming a teacher.