The New York Cares Podcast

Our guest this week is Nan Jack, a New York Cares Team Leader who has served the five boroughs for the last ten years. She is a genuinely inspiring and selfless member of our community, who has led projects with Visions and the Astoria Park Alliance. 

Our guest this week is Luis Torres, the principal of PS 55X in the Bronx. He beat the odds of his upbringing to become a community leader—advocating for ending systemic inequity, breaking the cycle of poverty, and seeing his students reach a college degree. 

This week on the New York Cares Podcast, we're presenting a Spanish-language conversation between our Chief Program Officer, Arlene Lozano, and our Officer of Event Production, Juan Carlos Vasquez, the recognizable face behind some of our most exceptional work across the five boroughs. Here is a link to volunteer projects which need Spanish speaking volunteers: https://bit.ly/3SL3fK3. 

This week, we're sharing a conversation with Trevor DeMilt, a Corporate Project Manager with New York Cares. Trevor is well known in our community as a creative problem solver with endless energy and positivity. We dove into how Trevor became involved with our mission, and what it takes to lead huge projects across the five boroughs. 

On this episode, we're proud to feature another exceptional volunteer Team Leader, Patrick McGuire.  Patrick is a Queens native who has completed over 4,000 projects and 8,400 hours of volunteer service over the past fifteen years. Patrick is a Coat Drive MVP, serving as an Ambassador promoting our program to commuters at Penn Station and leading coat collections, sorting, and distributions: but the most rewarding of all is Christmas mornings distributing coats at the Rescue Mission Center on Canal Street. In Patrick's own words, "What I really love about working with New York Cares is making an impact on the lives of the people we serve."

We speak with Nyisha Holliday, New York Cares' Chief Talent Officer, about our diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, and Women's History Month.