Lutheran Volunteer Corps has named Monica Fisk it’s next Puget Sound Coordinator. Monica will be responsible for linking and supporting LVC Volunteers, social justice organizations and ministries and LVC supporters in the Seattle and Tacoma area. Monica’s first day will be June 1.
The current coordinator, the Rev. Darla DeFrance, has been called by the Northwest Washington Synod to start a new Lutheran congregation in the Columbia City neighborhood of Seattle.
In addition to a passion for justice and an engaging humor, Monica brings to the LVC staff professional and educational experience regarding service-learning and community-based programming. Most recently, Monica has been the co-director and trainer for the Peace Activist Trainee Program of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and the youth program coordinator of Lutheran Peace Fellowship. She also is a self-employed gardener.
Following graduation from Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN, in 2002, she served as an LVC Volunteer at Lutheran Peace Fellowship in Seattle. She then coordinated international service learning experiences for Operation Crossroads in Uganda, and the Center for Global Education in Namibia and South Africa. She received her masters of arts in education from Antioch University, Seattle, in 2009.
Monica lives in intentional community at the Emma Goldman Finishing School in Seattle and networks with the national Federation of Egalitarian Communities and local groups working for sustainable and just community.
Monica will join the LVC staff June 1. She will be located in the Puget Sound office of LVC, at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 3818 S. Angeline St. Seattle, WA 98118.
