Nicolas is the Real Estate Systems Change VISTA at Wesley Housing. During his time at Wesley Housing, Nicolas assisted with the successful application for a $25,000 grant from the Enterprise Mid-Atlantic Resilience Academy Program. This grant will help Wesley Housing fund sustainability measures at new affordable housing developments. Another thing Nicolas has worked on is creating and maintaining a “portfolio statistics” spreadsheet that combines multiple data sources to make information more accessible to different departments at Wesley Housing. In addition to the spreadsheet, Nicolas has created a dashboard for the data that easily visualizes the data in useful ways and allows people using it to narrow down the data to what they need for grant applications, reporting, or board presentations.
Following his time with AmeriCorps VISTA, Nicolas intends to pursue a career in affordable housing, possibly taking on the role of project manager at Wesley Housing.