List of VISTA volunteers
Notable people who served as volunteers with the Volunteers in Service to America program include the following:
- Alurista, poet and activist
- Paul H. Anderson, Minnesota Supreme Court justice, was an attorney for VISTA
- James R. Benn
- Howard Berman
- David Blankenhorn
- Peter C. Brinckerhoff
- Carl Gershman (1965–1967; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), President of the National Endowment for Democracy since 1984.[1]
- Larry Gossett
- Eula Hall
- Richard P. (Dick) Haugland
- Michael Hennessy, San Francisco sheriff
- Charniele Herring, member of the Virginia House of Delegates
- Patricia D. Jehlen, Massachusetts state senator
- Margo Jennings, running coach
- Colbert I. King
- Douglas Kirby
- Ki Longfellow, author, was a VISTA volunteer on the Blackfeet Indian reservation
- James H. Maloney
- Charles E.F. Millard
- Gwen Moore
- Irwin Redlener[2]
- Emilie Richards
- Eugene Richards
- Jay Rockefeller, U.S. Senator
- Tweed Roosevelt
- Ted Smith
- James Sokolove
- Peterson Zah
Tom Kolwiecki, a fictional character in Denise Giardina's novel The Unquiet Earth, is depicted as a VISTA volunteer in Appalachia.
References
- ^ Reed, Dale (1999), Register of the Carl Gershman Papers (pdf), Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University, http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/13030/1b/tf167n981b/files/tf167n981b.pdf, retrieved 2011-08-13
- ^ Part of the Solution, Hofstra Magazine, Winter 2009