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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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
