The latest news, insights, and program highlights around leadership development.
Meet the Women in Leadership Program Bay Area cohort. Read their bios and see how this leadership development program in California empowers women leaders.
Tracy’s connection to LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes began long before she ever worked there. As an undergraduate, she wrote her senior capstone on how Latino communities are represented in mainstream museums, research that would quietly shape the next decade of her career. In 2014, a job posting for Administrative Office Manager at a […]
After the fires tore through Altadena, Isabella didn’t just watch the recovery from a distance — she got to work. In this Q&A, she reflects on what the Fellows Program in Public Affairs taught her about leadership, relationship building, and what it really takes to help a community rebuild. Effective leadership requires more than organization […]
At the end of the day, public policies come from stories. They’re the result of people having conversations. Coro brought home the deeply relational and interpersonal level at which everything of value gets produced. More than twenty years ago, Don spent 2003-04 as a Coro Fellow in Southern California, discovering a kind of learning that […]
When you’re presented with a problem or a blank canvas, do what makes sense to you and do it well. You will be shocked at how effective being yourself really is. Michael Green II came to Coro California’s Fellows Program in Public Affairs looking for the skills to change the world — and left with […]
Leadership starts with service. Some of the most consequential leadership happens quietly, in rooms most people rarely think to look. A nonprofit board meeting. A budget conversation. A moment in which someone chooses to ask a better question instead of pushing an opinion. Nonprofits carry real economic weight. They mobilize volunteerism and civic engagement. They […]
For this alumni Q&A, we’re catching up with Journey — Youth Fellows Program alum, Campbell Hall senior, and lifelong Angeleno — one year after she completed Coro California’s six-week Youth Fellows Program in July 2025. During her two-week internship placement, Journey worked with Hollywood 4wrd, a coalition dedicated to addressing homelessness in Hollywood through advocacy, […]
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 […]
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