“On paper, I am a teacher, but in reality the job is far more like directing a VISIONS program. It’s a thousand things at once – community-organizing, group-process facilitation, personalization, experiential design, synthesis. I love it.”
Antonia, a VISIONS alum and returned Peace Corps Volunteer is now a software engineer in Seattle, WA and plays the fiddle in a bluegrass band. Read more about how her time with VISIONS has influenced her life.
It might seem hard to effect change on your community as a student. But you CAN have a major impact—and in many ways, as a young person and student you’re better positioned to help than many others. Here’s how!
As Artificial Intelligence takes us by storm, our shift in perspective, as beings, goes even further from an orientation to the natural world to a technology-based world. What does this mean for young people, the digital natives who now also grow up with AI as part of their formative years? We have some thoughts about this.
From helping with blogs and the website to troubleshooting our databases, Juan Jose, or JJ, is our fun-loving and cheerful Technical Coordinator that VISIONS values deeply.
Service learning and community service are similar practices, but not all community service work is educational and transformative in the same way our service learning projects are. Let’s dive in!