Transformational Leadership
For more than 70 years, the Coro Fellows Program has developed emerging civic leaders to work effectively across sectors, catalyze systems, and accelerate positive change.
The Coro Fellows Program at UMSL is an intensive, nine-month, full-time, post-graduate experience for professionals who seek to develop effective leadership skills and engage in civic activities.
What you’ll experience…
During the Fellowship, you’ll use the community as a classroom—through placements, seminars, issue studies, and informational interviews with key community leaders. Through these learning experiences, you’ll gain broad exposure to the St. Louis region and develop skills to make more effective decisions as future civic leaders. During the Fellowship, you’ll learn how systems influence how the St. Louis region functions, as well as how an individual’s personal values, biases, and approach to working with others can shape the outcomes they achieve.
Program Components
Field Placements
Placements allow Fellows to gain hands-on experience with a variety of sectors and offer participants the opportunity to build robust professional networks. Each Fellow completes a minimum of five placements and is responsible for delivering projects for each organization at which they work.
Informational Interviews
Information Interviews provide access to a cross-section of city leaders, helping Fellows gain insight and diverse perspectives on leadership challenges. These closed-door, intimate sessions provide an opportunity to explore the motivation, method and logic of the individuals shaping our region’s future.
Training Seminars
Training Seminars build self-awareness, inquiry and critical thinking skills, introducing Fellows to the tools and frameworks needed to successfully contribute to an effective and collaborative group.
Focus Weeks
Focus Weeks immerse Fellows in the exploration around a specific issue, topic or industry area. Past Focus Weeks have centered on media, state government, media, and agriculture.
Application
Applications for the 2023-2024 cohort are now live! The deadline to apply is January 8, 2023 at 11:59 PST.
Nominate
Know someone who would be great for the Fellows Program in Public Affairs? Submit a nomination today!
Brochure
Download our one-pager overview about the Coro Fellows Program at UMSL.
Contact Us
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