By Jenna Watanabe, Marketing & Development Coordinator

JW: I’m sitting here with Ryan Campagna, our Beacon Director at Visitacion Valley Middle school. The first question I have for you is why R.O.C.K.?

 

RC: I have friends [who are in college now] that came through the program. [They] sent me the job listing and I looked at the website and really liked everything that R.O.C.K. does. So I applied.

 

JW: What’s your favorite thing about working at R.O.C.K. so far?

 

RC: I like my team. They’re awesome. We get done what we need to get done but [in our free time] we joke with each other and talk about music and build bonds. It’s going really well.

JW: What would you do for a career if you weren’t doing this?

 

RC: I’ve tried other things. I didn’t really like [anything else]. I like working with kids. It makes me learn a lot about myself. Maybe something in...

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By Jenna Watanabe, Marketing & Development Coordinator

JW: Hi Alexis! Thank you for hanging out with me today. I’d like to start off with the same question I’ve been asking everyone—what made you want to work with R.O.C.K.?

AG: I wanted to come back and give back to the San Francisco community and saw this position online. At first, I was afraid to apply because I thought maybe I didn’t qualify, but I kept seeing it and thought it was a sign I needed to apply to this job.

[What motivated me most] to apply was when I saw the community I would be serving. I used to work for a preschool and then an after school program at Hunter’s Point and it was one of the best experiences of my life—but the program ended up...

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