The latest news, insights, and program highlights around leadership development.
Julian came to Coro California’s Fellows Program in Public Affairs with a senior thesis on human trafficking in Los Angeles still fresh in his mind — and a hunch that the city held more nuance than any classroom could teach. In this Q&A, he reflects on what nine months of placements across LA’s public, private, […]
This summer, I spent six weeks as an intern with Coro California, sitting in on sessions for the Exploring Leadership program and talking with Fellows about their experience and what they learned. Fourteen high schoolers came into this year’s Exploring Leadership cohort not knowing each other. By the end, they were running their own graduation […]
The future of leadership development in California will not be defined by how many exceptional individuals we produce. It will be defined by whether we have the courage to invest in the relationships, trust, and civic capacity that make communities exceptional. California has long been where the future arrives first. The technologies we invent, the […]
What I came to appreciate is that leadership is often less about fitting a specific mold and more about honestly understanding your own strengths and weaknesses. Why I applied to a public affairs fellowship When I decided to apply for Coro’s Fellows Program in Public Affairs (FPPA), I think the biggest thing I was searching […]
Warren has spent his career sitting at the intersection of health care and advocacy, but it took nine months in Coro California’s Lead LA Fellowship program to help see that connection itself is a leadership skill. As Senior Manager of Development and Government Relations at Universal Community Health Center (UCHC), Warren raises funds and builds […]
What follows are a few honest reflections from that year, what I was searching for when I applied, what surprised me, what shifted in me, and how I think about leadership now versus twelve months ago. Why I applied to the public policy fellowship: learning while doing Coro promised something different: constant learning, but always […]
Why I applied for a public policy fellowship During the fall of my senior year in college, I was in Washington, D.C. for a National Summer Learning Association (NSLA) conference. Aaron Dworkin, the CEO of NSLA (who did the Coro Fellows Program in New York) approached me at the conference and asked me what I […]
Every organization has a version of this conversation. The budget gets tight, the future gets foggy, and someone asks which line items are essential and which are nice to have. Leadership development almost always lands in the second column. It gets framed as a reward for good years, something to revisit once the ground stops […]
For this alumni spotlight, we sat down with Sorelle Cohen, Senior Director of Development, Marketing, and Communications at The Pad Project, and graduate of Coro’s Women in Leadership program. We talked about the lessons that have stayed with her long after the program ended, how it reshaped the way she leads and solves problems, and […]
The best leaders I encountered this year were not always the loudest people in the room. Often, they were the people listening the hardest. What surprised me most during the Fellowship was realizing how much of Los Angeles runs on relationships that the public never sees. Before Coro, I understood institutions mostly from the outside. […]
