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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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
