Meet Wynton

Wynton Karanja is serving at EMBARC's Waterloo office in his first year as a RefugeeRISE AmeriCorps member.

This year Wynton graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Health Promotion from the University of Northern Iowa, where he also discovered EMBARC and its UNI RISE student organization.

Wynton speaks multiple languages including Swahili and Kikuyu, and has lived in Kenya and Iowa City. Highlights from 2019 include graduating from college and visiting his family in Kenya.