IMPACT! Community Change with AmeriCorps VISTA

The VISTA Experience: Jay Weygandt

This episode will discuss the opportunities of the VISTA experience. Having an alumni as the guest speaker to highlight successes and challenges of becoming a VISTA. Telling listeners how to take advantage of the programs and training a VISTA program may provide.

Life After Service: Beth Donahue

The purpose of this episode is to help VISTAs members navigate life after VISTA. The VISTA program is filled with opportunities to grow professionally and personally. Gaining new skills and taking initiative in your professional growth. We want to highlight that in this episode, giving VISTAs insight on how to use your skills after VISTA. Adding VISTA to your resume, what that can do for you, lifetime connections, a community, etc.

Serving with Lived Experience: Kanisha Watkins

Today's episode will feature a guest speaker with experience as a VISTA who has been through poverty, discussing some of the challenges of serving in these situations. Best practices navigating through your service year, thinking long term with your VISTA experience. Learning from the community etc. This episode will strive to offer inspiration while telling an impactful story.

Introduction to AmeriCorps VISTA: Andrea Carter

Our first episode! This one is about the introduction of Americorps VISTA, telling Andrea’s history of the VISTA program and why it exists. How has the program helped or influenced her? Getting listeners aware of the kind of work the VISTA is doing. Talk about the VISTA on a micro level, giving the details.