The latest news, insights, and program highlights around leadership development.
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. […]
Positive youth development is being applied as a framing lens to youth programs all over the country. Centered on six anchor skills that help youth thrive, it’s a cheat code to maximize the interactions we have with youth within our programs to positively impact their development. What strikes me as I dig deeper into this […]
What I was searching for: the journey to a public policy fellowship at Coro Before Coro, I was working on a small team at an environmental advocacy nonprofit. On paper, it checked a lot of boxes: it was in the environmental field, a mission-based organization, and gave me flexibility in my role. In practice, I […]
Meet the 2026 cohort of Coro’s Youth Climate Fellowship, a summer youth leadership program in Los Angeles shaping the next generation of climate leaders.
People often say that life is about who you know, not what you know. But I think that Coro strengthened both. Something that’s baked into the Coro experience is an understanding of how interconnected public affairs really are. Issues overlap, sectors influence one another, and learning about one topic often opens the door to many […]
This summer, a new cohort of high school students join Coro California’s Youth Fellows Program, our six-week summer youth leadership program in the Greater Los Angeles area. The program is built to prepare students to step up as the next generation of civic leaders. What our summer youth leadership program offers Fellows Over six weeks, […]
Coro has been building the human advantage for 80 years Coro builds leaders who can look inward with self-awareness, outward across difference, and forward toward collective action. That combination is now central to the human advantage. When we talk about AI and the future of work, we tend to focus on speed, automation, and efficiency. […]
This summer, a new cohort of high school students are joining Exploring Leadership, Coro California’s six-week youth leadership summer program in the San Francisco Bay Area. Over six weeks, these students train in critical thinking, goal setting, and group facilitation; gain real-world experience through a professional internship with a local organization; and design and deliver […]
I came asking how a city breaks down. I left with more. I did not grow up in California. Growing up in Chicago and living across different countries through college taught me that there is rarely only one way of doing things. Every place I lived challenged assumptions I hadn’t realized I was making: about […]
