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Jeanne Radday works full-time as Arlington Neighborhood Village’s Member Services Director, works part-time with the Arlington County Police Department as a Crossing Guard, and spends the free time she has left volunteering at Arlington Neighborhood Village in any capacity that’s needed.
Munira Tabassum is an IT Support Specialist in Arlington County Government’s Treasurer’s Office. She moved to Arlington in 2019 and continues to enjoy the opportunities to learn more about the local community. Through her internship with Arlington County, she learned about its Time to Give program and has found it to be an incredible opportunity to volunteer. She loves how much the County “cares about its people.” This program is important to her because it encourages people to find time to engage with their community, which is also evident by Arlington County taking Volunteer Arlington’s Time to Serve pledge.
When Durai Murugan Subba Reddy isn’t in Amtrak’s office working with the Digital Technology team, you can find him volunteering either with his Amtrak colleagues or his family. He spends much of his free time giving back. This includes leading group volunteer opportunities at Amtrak. He finds it important to show his kids the importance of engaging with their community.
Through Amtrak, Durai is involved in giving back efforts with the Capital Area Food Bank and DC Central Food. He found these opportunities through an initiative organized by a colleague. While there, Durai heard “people from other companies were coming on a regular basis to spend their time giving back to the community, once every two or three weeks, coming and packing food or supplies,” and found himself inspired by their dedication. He went to Amtrak’s Office of Community Engagement and learned how to coordinate his own groups and start more regular volunteering efforts.
Anitra Matthews began participating in volunteer opportunities through Amtrak in 1997. Her volunteer work began with Amtrak’s Safety Fairs, creating committees, and finding ways to get her colleagues involved. Today, Amtrak has an Office of Community Engagement that encourages Amtrak employees to give back to the community through volunteering. Recently, she has supported a STEM packing project here in Arlington with Rosie Riveter’s, created survival study kits for college students, helped move a family with the Ronald McDonald House to a new home, and more! Almost all of Anitra’s volunteer service is done through opportunities provided by Amtrak’s Office of Community Engagement.
Rebecca Coert is an Arlingtonian who is passionate about libraries, research, and giving back. Her job and her volunteer efforts both mirror her passion. She’s been working at Arlington Public Libraries for 25 years, and currently manages the suite of catalog applications that the library uses to manage their day-to-day activity. As a child, the first time she volunteered was at a library, and she continued this tradition when she took part in Arlington County’s Time to Give program by volunteering with the Library of Congress. Through this program, Arlington County provides its employees with paid time off to volunteer. Arlington County also showed their commitment to this by taking Volunteer Arlington’s Time to Serve pledge.
Three years ago, Jimmy Valenzuela answered Deloitte’s call to support Edu-Futuro, and today he’s still acting as a liaison between Deloitte and Edu-Futuro. In this role, which is separate from his tax work at Deloitte, he leads regular cadence calls with Edu-Futuro to understand their programming, determine the organization’s needs, and where Deloitte volunteers can engage.