“As a first-generation college student, I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do. I knew I was passionate about social work, and I also knew that I loved systems change work, but I didn't know what that looked like in practice. And so I knew that I needed to refine my leadership and professional development, and I stumbled across the Coro Fellows Program.”

Introducing the Coro Fellows Program at UMSL Class of 2027. Over the next seven months, these Fellows will interact with private, public, and nonprofit decision-makers while immersed in intentionally ambiguous and stimulating environments designed to support their growth and development in a collaborative, peer-to-peer learning space.

Alumni of the civic leadership fellowship Coro in St. Louis share how it challenged them and continues to influence their career. Coro in St. Louis features rich interactions with private, public, and nonprofit decision-makers while immersing fellows in environments designed to support their growth and development in a collaborative learning space.

Introducing the Coro Fellows Program at UMSL Class of 2026. Over the next nine months, these Fellows will interact with private, public, and nonprofit decision-makers while immersed in intentionally ambiguous and stimulating environments designed to support their growth and development in a collaborative, peer-to-peer learning space.

“It was a transformational experience for me. The training component, I think, probably gave me 10 years’ worth of education that I would have had no other way to get in a span of nine months.”

Alumni from every decade the Coro Fellows program has been in St. Louis joined together to celebrate the program’s impact. Norm Eisenberg, a member of the second class of the Coro Fellows Program in St. Louis, shared more about his experience in this article from UMSL Daily.