Governor-elect Peter Shumlin has appointed Harold Colston as executive director of the Vermont Commission on National and Community Service.
The Commission, with a state-administered $2 million grant from the federal government, coordinates Americorps National service programs and other volunteer and community services across Vermont.
Colston is currently executive director of the nonprofit organization NeighborKeepers, and is an adjunct professor at Champlain College, where he lectures about building community through volunteerism.
He previously served as diversity coordinator at the Howard Center in Burlington, and is the founder of the Good News Garage in Burlington.