Spring 2025 TMACF & AmeriCorps VISTA Workshop Series – Leading with Purpose: Defining Your Leadership Mission

Transform Mid-Atlantic is pleased to host a three part skill-based workshop series for its 2024-2025 cohort of TMA Civic Fellows and AmeriCorps VISTA Members during the Spring 2025 semester! The first workshop will focus on “Leading with Purpose: Defining Your Leadership Mission”. The event will take place on Thursday, February 13 from 12:00-1:00PM via Zoom and will be facilitated by Cristina Flores, Director of Partnerships & Growth at the New Politics Leadership Academy. You can learn more about Cristina by scrolling below. 

About the workshop: This session is a chance to encounter the approach to leadership development that is central to the New Politics Leadership Academy’s work. Expect an engaging mix of leadership development theory, myth, pop culture, reflection, and dialogue. You’ll be invited to clarify your own personal mission and craft your own “shadow mission”, and will emerge with a deeper sense of purpose and higher consciousness of how to be with your wholeness as a human being.

Register below to join in this exclusive opportunity for TMA Civic Fellows and AmeriCorps VISTA Members!

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About Cristina:
As the Director of Partnerships and Growth, Cristina’s mission is to grow the servant leadership pipeline by building strong relationships with values-aligned organizations. Cristina is a proud AmeriCorps alum who served three years at Literacy First in Austin, TX. She was then brought on staff as their Recruitment and Outreach Coordinator where she was responsible for hiring and onboarding up to 100+ AmeriCorps members annually and building relationships with key organizations to support recruitment efforts. In 2018 she joined OneStar Foundation, the TX state service commission, as a Program Officer where she supported a portfolio of nine AmeriCorps programs across Texas in federal grant management, compliance, led trainings around equitable recruitment and retention practices, and co-led the 25th AmeriCorps Anniversary TX celebration. Her deep experience in national service drew her to NPLA’s mission. Cristina grew up in the bordertown, Laredo, TX and graduated with an undergraduate degree in Vocal Performance and Mass Communications at Texas State University. With her deep passion for civic engagement and the arts, Cristina is one of the co-founders of San Antonio AmeriCorps Alums, a Voter Deputy Registrar, and Board President of One Ounce Opera.