Category: WELCOME

Welcome Your September Year-Long VISTA!

9/17/2019

Zak will serve Fairbanks from September 3, 2019-September 1, 2020. Year-long VISTAs perform indirect service focusing on capacity building. Stay tuned for updates as their year progresses!

Zakeya Mitchell,
Library Program Specialist

Zakeya Mitchell is a currently a Location Services Coordinator at the Noel Wien Public Library in Fairbanks, Alaska, by way of South Carolina. What intrigued her about this position at the library is her love for writing; because great readers are great writers, but even more so, great readers learn to avoid the one sided narrative. Zak, as she likes to be called, has read many stories about great adventures that lead to the main characters epiphany or Ah Ha moment near the end. So many different stories, so few representations, and even fewer variations in character complexities, especially for minorities of any shade. She wants to change that, one story at a time. Giving every hue, disability and special thing that categorizes people as an “other” voice in story books. Zak is a writer. And it is her end goal to serve the world with words.

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WELCOME YOUR AUGUST YEAR-LONG VISTA!

8/20/2019

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Brynn will serve Fairbanks from August 19, 2019-August 17, 2020. Year-long VISTAs perform indirect service focusing on capacity building. Stay tuned for updates as their year progresses!

Brynn Butler,
Reentry Program Associate

Brynn Butler is local to the Fairbanks area. She serves with Fairbanks Reentry Coalition. She will work with FRC to increase anti-poverty and anti-opioid programming for those returning to the community after incarceration. Brynn is passionate about reducing the stigma that is attached to those reentering the community from incarceration and those who have been affected by the opioid epidemic. She is the mother of two teenage daughters and a very “Fancy” cat.

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WELCOME YOUR AUGUST YEAR-LONG VISTA!

8/8/2019

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Leah will serve Fairbanks from August 5, 2019-August 3, 2020. Year-long VISTAs perform indirect service focusing on capacity building. Stay tuned for updates as their year progresses!

Leah Shaffer,
Project Development Specialist

Leah joined the VISTA team here in Fairbanks on August 5th after moving up from St. Louis, Missouri. She will be working at Fairbanks Soil and Water Conservation District (FSWCD) as a Project Development Specialist, helping to get their urban hydroponic farm project up and running. Leah is psyched to experience her first Alaskan winter and is planning to make the most of it by ice skating on the river, fat biking, and learning to ski.

Please don't laugh at her if you watch her fall off her fat bike in the snow.

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Welcome Your July Year-Long VISTA!

7/10/2019

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Vicki will serve Fairbanks from July 8, 2019-July 6, 2020. Year-long VISTAs perform indirect service focusing on capacity building. Stay tuned for updates as their year progresses!

VICKI SLOBODYANIK, DEVELOPMENT & COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR

Vicki Slobodyanik moved to Fairbanks in the summer of 2019 from a small town in Iowa. She will serve at Love Inc. as a Development and Communications Coordinator focusing on developing a sustainable plan. She recently graduated college with a bachelors degree in Business and Accounting and also did a program with YWAM in Mexico! She loves helping and serving people and can not wait to help impact this community!

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Welcome Your June Year-Long VISTAs!

6/27/2019

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Kelsey and Emily will serve Fairbanks from June 10, 2019-June 8, 2020. Year-long VISTAs perform indirect service focusing on capacity building. Stay tuned for updates as their year progresses!

KELSEY SNYDER,
FUND DEVELOPMENT
& FINANCIAL DIVERSITY

Kelsey moved to Fairbanks from Michigan to join Thrivalaska as their first year-long VISTA. She will be focusing on fundraising, communications and development. Kelsey recently graduate from the University of Michigan with a bachelor degree in political science but has always had a passion for volunteering. She loves to travel and go on adventures with her Alaskan husky, Polar!

EMILY DRESZER,
DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR

After moving from Maryland to Fairbanks to serve as ThrivAlaska's first VISTA Summer Associate, Emily has joined the Alaska Coalition on Housing and Homelessness (AKCH2) as their year-long Development Coordinator VISTA. She will be focusing on capacity building, researching best practices, and advocacy.

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WHAT'S NEW?

Welcome Your September Year-Long VISTA!

Zakeya Mitchell,
Library Program Specialist

WELCOME YOUR AUGUST YEAR-LONG VISTA!

Brynn Butler,
Reentry Program Associate

WELCOME YOUR AUGUST YEAR-LONG VISTA!

Leah Shaffer,
Project Development Specialist

Welcome Your July Year-Long VISTA!

VICKI SLOBODYANIK, DEVELOPMENT & COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR

Welcome Your June Year-Long VISTAs!

KELSEY SNYDER,
FUND DEVELOPMENT
& FINANCIAL DIVERSITY

EMILY DRESZER,
DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR

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WHAT'S NEW?

Welcome Your September Year-Long VISTA!

Zakeya Mitchell,Library Program Specialist

WELCOME YOUR AUGUST YEAR-LONG VISTA!

Brynn Butler, ​Reentry Program Associate

WELCOME YOUR AUGUST YEAR-LONG VISTA!

Leah Shaffer,​Project Development Specialist

Welcome Your July Year-Long VISTA!

VICKI SLOBODYANIK, DEVELOPMENT & COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR

Welcome Your June Year-Long VISTAs!

KELSEY SNYDER, FUND DEVELOPMENT ​& FINANCIAL DIVERSITY

EMILY DRESZER,​DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR

Archives

Categories

Zakeya Mitchell,
Library Program Specialist

Brynn Butler,
Reentry Program Associate

Leah Shaffer,
Project Development Specialist

KELSEY SNYDER,
FUND DEVELOPMENT
& FINANCIAL DIVERSITY

EMILY DRESZER,
DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR