Santa Fe Collective Impact AmeriCorps VISTA
Please Welcome Our 5 AmeriCorp VISTAs!
From Left to Right: Tom Dubois, Salome Block, Mayor Javier Gonzales, and Vanessa Martinez
Vanessa Martinez will be working on Career Pathways and Workforce Development. Vanessa, a native of Albuquerque, NM is excited to be serving a similar community to the one she grew up in. She has a BS in Agriculture and Community Development and a MS in Nutrition and Dietetic Science from New Mexico State University. She worked for the USDA for 4 years as a trail crew member with the USFS and a soil conservationist with NRCS. She also worked with the Natural Resource Career Tracks Program (NRCT), which provides professional and academic avenues for youth to succeed in natural resource related fields. She enjoys adventuring in the NM wilderness, identifying plants and scouting wildlife, along with gardening and country western dancing with her fiancé. She and her fiancé own two parakeets and hope to have a farm one day with many more animals.
Tom DuBois will be focused on Prevention and Re-engagement to Disconnected Youth. Tom came to us after nine years of teaching High School, Special Education, and Culinary Arts. Yes, he can cook! His degrees include an A.A.S. in Culinary Arts. B.S. in Career & Technical Education. and a M.Ed. in Special Education. In his free time, he likes gardening and maintaining his motorcycle for big trips. Originally from Rhode Island, last year he taught in Alaska and then crossed the Arctic Circle while wearing an orange tutu. In his VISTA role this year, he hopes to make a significant difference for Santa Fe youth and the community.
Salome Felise Block will be working on Grant Writing and Best Practice Research. Salome is a native of Santa Fe who holds her Bachelor of Arts in English from McMurry University. While attending McM, the position paper she wrote for the National Model United Nations Conference, laying out an international framework for addressing the legal status and protection of the rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered and Intersex (LGBTI) individuals, won a conference award in Rome, Italy. Throughout her education, she served as: The Editor of the McM University War Hawk Herald, the Artistic Editor of the literary magazine The Galleon and the President of McM’s chapter of the National Honors English Society Sigma Tau Delta. Her subsequent work focused on children, working a year in Seattle as a supervisor with LEGO Brad Retail. She is excited to be working with the children of her hometown, improving their extended learning opportunities through summer, after-school and informal education programs for their birth to career success.
Alishiya Kapoor will be working on K-12 Extended Learning. She just moved here from Kansas City, MO after working for Jerusalem Farm, a non-profit live in intentional community focused on being in solidarity with those experiencing poverty by providing home repair. Her role in the community was supporting high school and college age volunteers in providing hospitality and food sustainability services. Community service has always been a way of life for Alishiya since college, so she is excited to be working in another non-profit with a focus on education. She is also happy to be living in the Santa Fe area in close proximity to her mom and five-year-old sister. In her free time, Alishiya likes to practice and teach yoga, cook, explore nature and be creative!
Molly Timmins will be working on the Mentoring and Tutoring HUB. Molly came to us from New York after graduating from the University of Maryland with a B.S. in Psychology this past May. While attending UMD, she served as a Resident Assistant with her Executive Vice-Presidency in Circle K International, a mentor with America Reads in a local elementary school, and was a student and research assistant for Beyond the Classroom. Molly spent the summer of 2014 as a Client Relations and Community Outreach Intern at A Wider Circle in Silverspring, Maryland and in the summer of 2021, Molly participated in the Urban Education Leaders Internship Program as a project coordinator for the summer program DC Meets Washington for D.C. Public Schools. Molly is excited to work with the many organizations in Santa Fe dedicated to providing mentors and tutors to school aged children and youth.
Read the City’s announcement and Santa Fe New Mexican article here.
Tom DuBois will be focused on Prevention and Re-engagement to Disconnected Youth. Tom came to us after nine years of teaching High School, Special Education, and Culinary Arts. Yes, he can cook! His degrees include an A.A.S. in Culinary Arts. B.S. in Career & Technical Education. and a M.Ed. in Special Education. In his free time, he likes gardening and maintaining his motorcycle for big trips. Originally from Rhode Island, last year he taught in Alaska and then crossed the Arctic Circle while wearing an orange tutu. In his VISTA role this year, he hopes to make a significant difference for Santa Fe youth and the community.
Salome Felise Block will be working on Grant Writing and Best Practice Research. Salome is a native of Santa Fe who holds her Bachelor of Arts in English from McMurry University. While attending McM, the position paper she wrote for the National Model United Nations Conference, laying out an international framework for addressing the legal status and protection of the rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered and Intersex (LGBTI) individuals, won a conference award in Rome, Italy. Throughout her education, she served as: The Editor of the McM University War Hawk Herald, the Artistic Editor of the literary magazine The Galleon and the President of McM’s chapter of the National Honors English Society Sigma Tau Delta. Her subsequent work focused on children, working a year in Seattle as a supervisor with LEGO Brad Retail. She is excited to be working with the children of her hometown, improving their extended learning opportunities through summer, after-school and informal education programs for their birth to career success.
Alishiya Kapoor will be working on K-12 Extended Learning. She just moved here from Kansas City, MO after working for Jerusalem Farm, a non-profit live in intentional community focused on being in solidarity with those experiencing poverty by providing home repair. Her role in the community was supporting high school and college age volunteers in providing hospitality and food sustainability services. Community service has always been a way of life for Alishiya since college, so she is excited to be working in another non-profit with a focus on education. She is also happy to be living in the Santa Fe area in close proximity to her mom and five-year-old sister. In her free time, Alishiya likes to practice and teach yoga, cook, explore nature and be creative!
Molly Timmins will be working on the Mentoring and Tutoring HUB. Molly came to us from New York after graduating from the University of Maryland with a B.S. in Psychology this past May. While attending UMD, she served as a Resident Assistant with her Executive Vice-Presidency in Circle K International, a mentor with America Reads in a local elementary school, and was a student and research assistant for Beyond the Classroom. Molly spent the summer of 2014 as a Client Relations and Community Outreach Intern at A Wider Circle in Silverspring, Maryland and in the summer of 2021, Molly participated in the Urban Education Leaders Internship Program as a project coordinator for the summer program DC Meets Washington for D.C. Public Schools. Molly is excited to work with the many organizations in Santa Fe dedicated to providing mentors and tutors to school aged children and youth.
Read the City’s announcement and Santa Fe New Mexican article here.
Recruiting Now for 2017 AmeriCorps VISTA Positions!
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What is AmeriCorps VISTA?
VISTA (Volunteers In Service To America) was founded in 1965 as a national service program to fight poverty in America. In 1993, VISTA was incorporated into the AmeriCorps network of programs. AmeriCorps VISTA taps the skills, talents and passion of more than 7,000 Americans annually to support community efforts to overcome poverty. AmeriCorps VISTA members are passionate and committed to their mission to bring individuals and communities out of poverty. Members make a year-long, full-time commitment to serve on a specific project at a nonprofit organization or public agency. They focus their efforts to build the organizational, administrative, and financial capacity of organizations that fight illiteracy, improve health services, foster economic development, and otherwise assist low-income communities. |
AmeriCorps VISTA is open to all U.S. citizens, nationals, or lawful permanent resident aliens age 18 and older. Members and Summer Associates receive a modest living allowance. Members who serve for a year also receive limited health benefit options, childcare, if needed, and other benefits. After successful completion of a term of service, members can choose to receive a Segal AmeriCorps Education Award or post-service stipend.
For more information, visit www.nationalservice.gov/programs/americorps/americorps-vista
Santa Fe Collective Impact AmeriCorps VISTA Project
The Santa Fe AmeriCorps VISTA project supporting the Collective Action Plans of the Mayor's Children, Youth and Families Community Cabinet and the Santa Fe Birth to Career Collaboration is looking for new AmeriCorps VISTA members! The VISTA Project and award particularly recognize and support Santa Fe's participation in the President's My Brother's Keeper (MBK) Community Challenge, in which communities are called to build and execute robust plans to ensure that all young people—no matter who they are, where they come from, or the circumstances into which they are born—can achieve their full potential.
This VISTA project will further support Santa Fe collective impact efforts to improve the outcomes of birth to career success, well being, and equity for all children, youth, and young adults up to age 24 in Santa Fe, with particular focus on low-income and at-risk target populations.
These VISTA members will work closely with community leaders and partners to develop and implement collaborative community outreach strategies, improve resource coordination, and engage youth and adults in the community, as well as seek grants and research best practices to ensure long-term sustainability and success of the collective impact efforts.
Applying to AmeriCorps VISTA
Recruiting will take place immediately on a rolling-basis. For priority considerations, apply as soon as possible. See the detailed job description below on the AmeriCorps website where you can submit your application:
https://my.americorps.gov/mp/listing/viewListing.do?id=65139&fromSearch=true
For questions, contact .
For more information, visit www.nationalservice.gov/programs/americorps/americorps-vista
Santa Fe Collective Impact AmeriCorps VISTA Project
The Santa Fe AmeriCorps VISTA project supporting the Collective Action Plans of the Mayor's Children, Youth and Families Community Cabinet and the Santa Fe Birth to Career Collaboration is looking for new AmeriCorps VISTA members! The VISTA Project and award particularly recognize and support Santa Fe's participation in the President's My Brother's Keeper (MBK) Community Challenge, in which communities are called to build and execute robust plans to ensure that all young people—no matter who they are, where they come from, or the circumstances into which they are born—can achieve their full potential.
This VISTA project will further support Santa Fe collective impact efforts to improve the outcomes of birth to career success, well being, and equity for all children, youth, and young adults up to age 24 in Santa Fe, with particular focus on low-income and at-risk target populations.
These VISTA members will work closely with community leaders and partners to develop and implement collaborative community outreach strategies, improve resource coordination, and engage youth and adults in the community, as well as seek grants and research best practices to ensure long-term sustainability and success of the collective impact efforts.
Applying to AmeriCorps VISTA
Recruiting will take place immediately on a rolling-basis. For priority considerations, apply as soon as possible. See the detailed job description below on the AmeriCorps website where you can submit your application:
https://my.americorps.gov/mp/listing/viewListing.do?id=65139&fromSearch=true
For questions, contact .