The AmeriCorps Connections Podcast is a space where alumni, members, and partners share how national service shapes careers, communities, and lives. Hosted by AmeriCorps alum Nicki Fiocco, each episode highlights stories of resilience, leadership, and purpose—showing that while service terms may end, the impact and connections continue.

Tune in each week on your favorite podcast platform to listen, follow, subscribe, and share. Check it out and be part of the ongoing story of service.

Latest Episodes

Our Democracy Is as Strong as the People Who Protect It | Laura Perez & Dev Myers, New Politics

What if your service year already set you up to run for office? Laura Perez served in the founding year of City Year Milwaukee and stayed for a second year because she...

From Goats in the Classroom to Growing Leaders | Destiny Schlinker, FoodCorps

🎙️ AmeriCorps Connections tells the stories of alumni who were changed by national service. Subscribe and share so these stories keep reaching people. What if your lef...

Ep. 117 Saylor Ogle: I Made Myself Brave

Saylor Ogle has done four AmeriCorps terms and counting, and somewhere along the way she became "the Lorax." She speaks for the trees, plants them, mulches them, prune...

Ep. 116 | IT'S NOT A GAP YEAR. IT'S A GROWTH YEAR | Tavon Johnson

🏀 From Coaching Basketball to Building Careers — One Service Year at a Time Tavon Johnson didn't just do one AmeriCorps term. He did three — and each one built directl...

Eps. 115 | From AmeriCorps VISTA to Congressional Candidate — Science, Sustainability, and Solving for What Matters

Michaela Barnett: From AmeriCorps VISTA to Congressional Candidate — Science, Sustainability, and Solving for What Matters What does it look like when a service year b...

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