Alumni Spotlights
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits AmeriCorps VISTA Program began in 2014 with only seven VISTA members and six host site organizations. Since then we have grown to 11 VISTAs in 2015, and in 2016 we welcomed 20 service members. We are proud to have a strong network of engaged alumni. Learn more about them in the spotlight stories below and on the VISTA Blog.
After only a year, MCN VISTA alumni are already making an impact in the post-service world.
Inspired by her year at Nexus Community Partners working with local immigrant and refugee communities, VISTA alumna Giselle Efon received her Master of Social Work with an emphasis in clinical mental health from the University of Minnesota this May. In December she will return to her home country of Cameroon for the first time since moving to the United States, where she will spend a month with the goal of better understanding her own roots and identity.
