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New Hampshire VISTA's
Erin Pringle
Campus Compact for New Hampshire
After serving two years as a VISTA at Southern New Hampshire University, Erin is serving a third year as Campus Compact for New Hampshire’s VISTA Leader. Her primary focus is to assist the CCNH VISTA team with all of their questions and concerns, and provide professional development and team-building opportunities to help them make the most of their year of service. She also recruits and screens all VISTA applicants for the next year of service, and assists with Campus Compact for New Hampshire programs.
Jacob Avery
Campus Compact for New Hampshire Jacob serves in the Campus Compact for New Hampshire office. He works with Guidance Counselors throughout New Hampshire, helping students become more involved in higher education at an earlier age, with a focus on underrepresented students. One initiative Jacob is leading is called the ‘Student Panel on the Road’ bringing college students together and sharing their experiences with high school students. The panels have discussed time management, college vs. high school life and financial aid among other topics. Another initiative is an assessment of New Hampshire access programs (geared for underrepresented students) at high schools, higher education institutions, and community organizations. This assessment will help our office focus on areas that are not being covered in the state.
Rebecca Briller
Dartmouth College
Rebecca is the Tucker Foundation's VISTA for National and Local Service. In national service, she sustains the Dartmouth Partners in Community Service (DPCS) internship program through recruitment, hiring and training new participants. She is also helping to launch the DPCS Post-Graduate Fellowship program by creating marketing strategies and developing the educational seminar series curriculum. In local service, she is advising the Dartmouth Habitat for Humanity Chapter, MoneySmart (financial literacy), North Country Weekend (college awareness), and Adult Basic Education programs as well as developing training modules for project chairs, assisting with faculty engagement initiatives, and conducting best practices analyses. For both service areas, she will work to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of all programs.
Ian Dumont
Dartmouth College
Ian serves at the Tucker Foundation at Dartmouth College as the campus's Volunteer Coordinator and VISTA for Local Service. He is excited (and challenged) to be back at Dartmouth in a professional role after graduating from the institution in June 2009. As part of his duties, he oversees Dartmouth's 40+ local service projects and directly advises a portfolio of diverse mentoring programs including Book Buddies, Big Brother Big Sister, DREAM, Prison Project, and STAR, of which he was a former student chair. In addition Ian is working with entrepreneurial students to develop two new projects--a winterization effort and a mentoring project for children of deployed military.
Laura LeBlanc
NHTI
Laura is the VISTA for NHTI, Concord’s Community College. She recruits, trains, and provides support for students interested in community service, work study, and service learning. She oversees one-time service projects, long-term service projects, and helps place interested volunteers and work study students in sites appropriate for them. Some non-profits she has been working closely with include local homeless shelters, group homes, and food pantries. She also advises the Alternative Spring Break club and assists them in finding one-time project opportunities.
Caitlin Mealey
Rivier College and Daniel Webster College
Caitlin works at both Rivier College and Daniel Webster College. She also works very closely with the 21st Century After-School program in Nashua, NH. Caitlin recruits college students to help with homework and activities done at 5 Title I elementary schools and 3 middle schools in Nashua, NH. The college students can also create and run their own activities. Caitlin not only recruits students but is also responsible for exposing the children in the after-school program to college. She is working on many programs that will bring college students into the schools and bring the children on to both of the campuses. One of these programs is bringing the middle school children on to campus and having the athletes teach them how to play a sport. The 21st Century program is not the only organization Caitlin works with. She also works with other agencies in the community, such as the Boys and Girl’s Club of Greater Nashua, The PLUS Company, and the Nashua Police Athletic Team.
Carey Snow
Southern New Hampshire University
Carey Snow is the VISTA at Southern New Hampshire University. She recruits, trains and supports students in the Community Service Work Study Program. The program matches SNHU students with Federal Work Study funds to partner organizations within the community. She also coordinates all one-time service projects and major projects such as the Fall Day of Service, Hunger and Homeless Week, and the Spring Service Week. She is also working on a Cafeteria Food Initiative to help reduce food waste on campus.
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