A Decade of Light Honoree: Colin Loftus ‘20
From Fellow to CFSI Recruitment Manager to current Senior Program Manager - Partnerships at GenUnity, Colin sparks change by championing community members and locating growth opportunities among various social sectors.
Colin is an alumni honoree at A Decade of Light, CFSI’s 10-year anniversary fundraiser on May 7, 2026. Support future student outcomes like Colin’s with your gift.
Colin was a member of the Spring 2020 cohort, where he was a Membership Organizing Fellow for City Life/Vida Urbana, responsible for helping community members and tenants connect virtually. This work was especially important as COVID hit and many people in Boston were suddenly out of work, at risk of eviction, and unable to attend in-person gatherings. Colin helped organize and moderate virtual meetings for CLVU for almost a year and helped onboard organizers onto the software. He loved seeing people from all walks of life come together to keep our neighbors in their homes!
Colin’s “post-CFSI” life is actually only partially without us! Following some time at Metro Housing Boston, Colin became the Recruitment Manager for CFSI, where he worked for 3 years with our college partners and future fellows to provide stellar match experiences. Now, at GenUnity, Colin works on the partnerships team and has had “the opportunity to meet amazing people from around the state with both proximate and professional expertise around the issues of housing justice, health equity, and environmental justice.” Outside of work, he spends a lot of time bopping around the Boston area with friends and his fiancée, another CFSI alum! We're looking forward to our wedding this fall (the first CFSI wedding)!
Who is your guiding light?
“I’m not sure I have just one! I have so much gratitude to my mom for showing me the importance of taking care of each other. She’s dedicated her life to caring for others, from working in human services to starting her own nonprofit to becoming a pastor and hospice chaplain.
I grew up volunteering in church kitchens, visiting elders in our community, and spending time in group homes and visiting job sites for folks with disabilities.
This helped instill the importance of community, the concept of “we’ve got us” that is driven home when a family drops a lasagna on your doorstep when your family is going through something, just as you’d done for them a few months ago. ”