Alumni
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits AmeriCorps VISTA Program began in 2014 with only seven VISTA members and six host site organizations. In 2015 we grew to 11 VISTAs, and have welcomed 19 service members this year! 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.
Meet Jess Del Fiacco.
Jess was the VISTA for the Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center (MIWRC) in the 2017-18 cohort. Like many VISTAs, she decided to stay in the local nonprofit sector after service. Jess now works at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance as part of the Community Broadband Network Initiative.
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.
