AmeriCorps - Obama Presidency Oral History Back AmeriCorps Index / Organizations Transcripts Macon Phillips ...was the job that was posted was with AmeriCorps VISTA, and it had been developed b... ...I don't know how familiar you are with AmeriCorps VISTA, but it's—the way people thin... ...which I think really overbills the AmeriCorps experience. I just think the Peac... ...ask about political awakening. I was AmeriCorps VISTA, like I said. I moved out t... ...And one of my other roommates was in AmeriCorps VISTA, and then the other one moved t... Denise O'Brien ...and then I met this guy who was a [ AmeriCorps ] VISTA volunteer [Volunteers i... Hadi Pir ...but the program was a federal program, AmeriCorps . Probably you heard of it. It's lik... ...like Peace Corps, but it's a local one, AmeriCorps . The government was giving me ... ...mentioned that the work for AmeriCorps was helping other refugees. Were thos... Shaun Donovan ...and joining public service—things like AmeriCorps —and a whole range of related effort... Eric Waldo ...me, and she pointed me towards an AmeriCorps program called Summer Bridge—now it'... Tyler Lechtenberg ...I was, at the time, working on an AmeriCorps position. I had been a sportswriter... ...on a Saturday afternoon. So I was doing AmeriCorps with a few friends, and we were gettin... Debra Eschmeyer ...You also founded FoodCorps as a part of AmeriCorps Emerging Leaders [Program] into school... ...corp.” It was about, How do we use AmeriCorps to help build out farms to provid... ...by 2017. So we're like, “Oh my gosh, AmeriCorps 's budget's going to increase. There'... ...but after meeting with the USDA and AmeriCorps we found out that you could no... ...out that you could not actually place AmeriCorps members into for-profit entities, whic... ...organization and with, I think it's 235 AmeriCorps service members in eighteen states an... ...was one-third of the funding from AmeriCorps , we got funding from variou... Show more... Noah McQueen ...just got nominated for executive of AmeriCorps , this week or last week. So he's a to... ...last week. So he's a top executive at AmeriCorps . He's still available for a call, o... Craig Fugate ...Community Service, and had taken their AmeriCorps and had brought that into FEMA, and w... ...to New York. We had hundreds of these AmeriCorps —we were calling them FEMA Corps. Ther... Leif Elsmo ...the time. This was in the beginning of AmeriCorps , national service, we're formalizin... ...that, and I was a member, an AmeriCorps member, in Milwaukee. So Public Allie... ...is a really cool idea.” This is pre- AmeriCorps , pre–national service, formally, tha... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Middle East and North Africa Middle East and North Africa go to the The People's House The People's House go to the Labor Labor go to the Immigration Immigration go to the Western Hemisphere Western Hemisphere