Meet the 2026 Rising Stars
October 8, 2026
Named 2026 Young Person of the Year.
Fiston NdayishimiyePress and media
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Community rejoices as Keach Park gets new lights
June 4, 2026
Lights on at Keach Park, June 3, 2026.
Keach Park lights installed
December 24, 2025
Lights installed after seven years of discussion.
Letter: Ndayishimiye, candidate for City Council at-large
October 20, 2025
Three Concord activists are continuing their work with the help of a NH nonprofit
January 22, 2025
NH PANTHER grantee profile.
“I want to see young people thinking like leaders.”
The right to a voice
September 19, 2024
One Concord, ahead of the Multicultural Festival at Keach Park.
40 Under Forty: Fisto Ndayishimiye
February 17, 2024
CYPN: Fisto Ndayishimiye is making changes
April 11, 2023
Concord Young Professionals Network feature.
“our community needs leaders who understand the value of every human being.”
Community leaders demand Keach Park lights
March 22, 2023
Forum led by Change for Concord.
Shout Out: Fisto Ndayishimiye, Community Organizer
February 2, 2023
City projects impacting refugee and New American communities
December 28, 2022
“This is what I am going to do for my entire life.”
30 area professionals selected for prestigious leadership program
July 14, 2022
Leadership Greater Concord class.
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Fiston Ndayishimiye is an author, speaker and youth leader based in Concord, New Hampshire. A Munyamulenge from the High Plateaux of Minembwe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he left on foot with his younger brother in 2011 and lived in Nakivale and Kakuma before arriving in New Hampshire on November 19, 2016. He co-founded the Young Adults Development Network with Pastor Serge Kagabo and has been its Executive Director since March 2024. He is a New Hampshire Union Leader 40 Under Forty honoree and the 2026 Stay Work Play New Hampshire Young Person of the Year. Writing as Fiston Mututsi, he is the author of Awakening African Leadership.
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Fiston Ndayishimiye is an author, speaker and co-founder and Executive Director of the Young Adults Development Network, writing as Fiston Mututsi.
