Matthew B. Wilhelm is a 25-year old National Service activist and resident of Manchester, NH. Through his two years of AmeriCorps service with City Year New Hampshire, Matt was afforded the opportunity to lead a team of his peers in mentoring, tutoring, and facilitating after school programming at Somersworth Middle School. He also managed public outreach and engagement efforts and helped to incubate Concert Corps, an initiative bridging the worlds of music and service that has since evolved into an independent non-profit.

Before City Year, Matt attended Plymouth State University, where he served as Student Body President, interned in the Governor’s Office for Citizen Affairs, and worked at Calumet Lutheran Camp & Conference Center. He works out of the maax, Inc. factory in the historic Manchester Millyard, spending his days traveling throughout New Hampshire as a grassroots organizer for ServeNext.org.

advocate for universal mandatory National Service in the United States so that millions of young people have a powerful shared common experience...

Nelson Mandela, Dave Matthews...

"ubuntu - I am a person through other people; my humanity is tied to yours." - African proverb

"The fact is that I am who I am. There are limits to my wisdom and my knowledge and my strength and my courage and my patience and my love. I am something, but I am not everything. And I am good. I am also hungry to be more than I am." - Michael Himes

"You can't lead our people if you don't love our people. You can't save our people if you won't serve our people." - Dr. Cornell West

"Let's be unite." - Elias

Montreal, Paris, Bonnaroo...

service, music, politics...

English, some French...