Alumni Stories

For Alex Ramirez, cities are places we inherit and shape together, a lesson she carried from Cholula, Mexico, to her role as Executive Director of Los Angeles Walks. As an alumna of Coro California’s Climate Resilience Leadership Network, she brings a planner’s lens and two decades of organizing to building a city that is more […]

Members of the Northern California Alumni Council at the Bay Area Alumni Night in September 2026. A couple weeks ago, leaving a Muni station, I ran into a Fellows Program alum on her way to trivia — with her friends from Coro, though she graduated a dozen years ago and 3,000 miles away. Some version […]

As Director of Policy and Government Relations at Chrysalis, Afton leads government relations strategy and an $8 million portfolio of public grants for an organization that has supported more than 90,000 people on their path to employment since 1984. An alumna of Coro’s Housing and Houselessness Leadership Network, she brings a valuable perspective: stable work […]

A Lead Fellowship Bay Area alumna leads East Oakland Boxing Association, hosting Exploring Leadership fellows and building civic engagement in Oakland.

Meet Macy, an alumna of Coro’s affordable housing leadership program in the Bay Area, now helping build California’s new housing finance system.

Coro alumni Aaron Carruthers shares how Coro California’s public affairs fellowship shaped his career and his definition of the true measure of leadership.

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]