For the last two-and-a-half years Weston native Matthew Barison traveled to places he would probably never have seen if it was not for the Peace Corps.
Barison applied for the Peace Corps after graduating from Trinity College in Connecticut in 2004. After a long process, Barison was invited to go to Uzbekistan and left in January 2005…

…Now that he has completed two-and-a-half years in the Peace Corps and is back home, he has a lot of plans for the future. The first plan is to work with AmeriCorps in their Maine office.

He will be working on programming, training and volunteer support for Campus Compact, which promotes community service, civic engagement and service learning in colleges and universities nationwide.

“I think it’ll be fun. It’ll be a challenge,” Barison said.

After working with AmeriCorps for a year, Barison plans to attend Tulane University Law School.