Fall 2001 - Fall 2002 Consortium CTC VISTA members:

Highlighted names indicate a personal VISTA web page created for the CTC VISTA Project.

Name: David Crist
Home Town: Lowell, MA
Organization Served: Pathfinder/Milestone and the Lowell Transitional Living Center (LTLC)
Accomplishments: David works on the computer recycling program at Pathfinder/Milestone using donated computers and hardware components to construct rebuilt machines for individual use. He also teaches classes and monitors the computer lab.

Name: Kourtney Hamilton
Home Town: Beaverton, OR
Organization Served: Lowell Telecommunications Corporation and Lowell Community Technology Consortium
Accomplishments: Kourtney currently works at LTC as the Public Information Officer for the Consortium. Plans include creating press releases to local newspapers, items of interest to be posted on the Consortium's web site, and a newsletter intended to unite and give support to the Consortium's member organizations and their participants.

Name: Rickie Jackson
Home Town: Los Angeles, CA
Organization Served: Recruitment Resources Consulting (3 labs)
Accomplishments: Currently, Rickie is responsible for providing technical and managerial support at RRC (Resource Recruitment Consulting). His participation spans three programs: PowerUP After-School Program, Public Access, and Workgroup Development Programming. Two RRC locations simultaneously operate each program on a daily basis, which requires a bit of technical/managerial cloning on Rickie's part.

Name: Terence Kennedy
Home Town: Lowell, MA
Organization Served: Pathfinders/Milestone and the Lowell Transitional Living Center (LTLC)
Accomplishments: Terence helps with the computer recycling program and lab monitoring at LTLC. He will continue John Hunt and Ray Riopelle's work with lab usage statistics and use his systems administration skills to give the labs technical support.

Name: Kevin Loechner
Home Town: Shreveport, LA
Organization Served: New Beginnings
Accomplishments: Kevin is using his strong background in technology to aid the computer lab at New Beginnings. He monitors the lab and teaches technology courses. He will also be assisting with the Lowell, MA web-based community resource guide currently being developed at New Beginnings.

Name: Dan MacNeil
Home Town: Lowell, MA (Via NJ, NY, England, MT, CO, PA, GA)
Organization Served: Lowell Telecommunications Corporation and Lowell Community Technology Consortium
Accomplishments: Dan currently continues his work for the Consortium at the University of Massachusetts/Lowell. He recruits and manages the volunteers who participate in the Consortium's web crew, develops volunteer and staff recruitment protocol, and teaches MSCE courses with the end result of producing MSCE certified volunteers for the Consortium.

For more information on VISTA and other AmeriCorps programs, visit the web site at www.americorps.org.

For more information about becoming a volunteer at LTC or any of the Consortium's community technology centers, call Felicia Sullivan at (978)458-5400 X 11 or apply online at www.lctc.org/go/vol/apply/index.shtml.