December   2007     

Volume VII, Issue IX.

The JOURNEY
a publication of the
Coro Center for Civic Leadership

Announce your success stories through the Coro Journey:

If you, or an alumnus/alumna that you know, has a great story that could be featured in the alumni spotlight, please contact Katie Koski.

Share your news with us:

Are you a Coro Alum with a new job?  New spouse?  New baby?  Please share your  news by emailing to Tracey Jones.

Announce your Job Opportunities through the Coro Website:

If you have a job, volunteer opportunity or other opening that you want to announce to the Coro Community, please post it to:
www.coro.org/submitjob

     In this issue:

Coro Center Updates        Alumni Database Launch        Innovation Week Update        Leadership Luncheon Save The Date             Annual Fund Reminder	Program News           Fellows Program in Public Affairs                 Recruitment for the 2008-09 Coro Fellows Class                 Successful Business Projects                 Coro Fellows Explore Labor Issues                 Thank You to Our Special Guests             Exploring Leadership Program                 Community Impact Project Highlights                 Stepping-Up, Stepping-Out Graduation Ceremony                 Ifeanyi Michael Ezeh, Jr. Spirit Award Recipient                 College and Career Night
Alumni News and Events          NCAA 2007 Annual Gathering Update           Coro Alumni Engagement Team Meeting          Alumni Spotlight: Ratna Amin          Alumni Spotlight: Laney Whitcanack          Alumni Updates	Coro Dialogue          Sports and Leadership
Donor Recognition          Annual Fund          General Support          Exploring Leadership          Fellows Program in Public Affairs	Opportunities and Jobs in the Community   Contact Us

Support Coro Center for Civic Leadership

Support Coro Today!
We appreciate your contributions. Your support allows us to deliver the best leadership development programs anywhere. Click on the icon to the left to make a contribution by check or credit card.

Contact Patrick O'Heffernan  if you are interested in contributing securities or other financial instruments, real estate or would like to make a planned gift.

Thank you for your ongoing support. 

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CORO CENTER UPDATES

Alumni Database Launch

Great news! On December 12, 2007, the San Francisco Alumni database was launched as a part of the Coro National Alumni Directory.

For the first time in the 60 plus year history of Coro, alumni are able to network with their fellow alumni using an alumni directory that is up to date, searchable, and contains all of the alumni who have graduated from Coro programs all over the United States. This Alumni Directory is password protected and only available to Coro alumni. Users will have to accept Coro's Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions of Use.

If you have received an email containing your login name and password, please go to the alumni section of the Coro Website http://coro.org/alumnidirectory and log onto the directory.  If you have questions about the alumni directory, please click on the “Frequently Asked Questions” icon on the left hand navigation panel. If you need assistance, please contact us by sending an email message to administrator@coro.org or info@coro.org.

If you have not received an email containing a login name and password, but you are a Coro alumni, please go to www.coro.org/updateinfo and enter your information in the database, and you will be contacted shortly via email with a login name and password.

Innovation Week Update

Planning for Innovation Week has accelerated with the launch of the Leadership 2.0 blog, and the expansion of the Innovation Week Advisory Council (IWAC). The current council has eleven members from a range of organizations and institutions. These individuals are engaged in innovation and online civic engagement, and the IWAC includes two Coro Center for Civic Leadership Board members and three Coro Alumni.  

1. Steve Poizner, California State Insurance Commissioner
2. Luis Buhler, CFO, FirstRain Corp; Vice Chairman of the Republican Party of Northern California 
3. Gary Fazzino, Vice President of Government Affairs, Hewlett-Packard Corporation 
4. Steve Wright, Director of Innovation, SalesForce.com Foundation 
5. Victor d’Allant, Executive Director, www.Socialedge.org, independent community of the Skoll Foundation 
6. Meg Garlinghouse, Director, Yahoo for Good 
7. Terry Nagel, Communications Officer, Skoll Foundation, and Mayor, the City of Burlingame 
8. Rahul Prakash, VP Growth Strategies, Spock.com 
9. Lynn Gutstadt, Director of Market Research, CNET Networks 
10. Rosa Terrazas, Community Engagement Manager, bîgtent.com
11. Carl Gardino, President and CEO, Silicon Valley Leadership Group
    

Leadership Luncheon Save The Date

SAVE THE DATE FOR THE 13^TH ANNUAL LEADERSHIP AWARDS LUNCHEON
April 18, 2008, at the Marriott San Francisco, located at 55  4^th Street.

Please mark it on your calendar now and look for your invitation.  Don’t miss out!

Annual Fund Reminder

We mailed the Coro Center Annual Fund letters a couple of weeks ago, so yours should have arrived in your mailbox. We rely on the response to the Annual Fund for a major piece of the funding for all of our Coro programs.  This year, we are asking you, our donors, to give a third more as we try to expand our very successful Exploring Leadership program for high school youth. If you didn’t receive your Annual Fund appeal, or if you can’t locate your return envelope, you can still contribute by clicking on the box below: 

 

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PROGRAM NEWS

Fellows Program In Public Affairs

Recruitment Update for the 2008-09 Coro Fellows Class

We are in the last few weeks of the recruitment season for the 2008-09 Coro Fellows Class! Thank you to the numerous members of our Coro Community who have referred candidates, talked to potential applicants on the phone or in person, participated in recruitment events, and the countless other ways they have supported our efforts. There is still time to encourage outstanding people in your network of friends and family to apply! The application deadline is Friday, January 11, 2007. Please refer any potential applicants to Katie Koski at kkoski@coro.org or 415.986.0521 ext. 102.

If you haven’t been involved with recruitment yet, now is your chance! There will be several opportunities to be a part of the selection process for next year’s class of Coro Fellows: Dates for application readings in late January will be announced shortly, and this year’s Selection Day is already scheduled for Thursday, March 20,2008 for anyone interested in being a judge. Please contact Katie at the contact information above if you have any questions about getting involved. 

Successful Business Projects

After completing their business placements on November 2^nd, four Fellows made formal presentation to their hosts and the Coro Fellows on the work they had done throughout the month. Below are descriptions of two of the projects.

Abbie Conlee FPPA'05 with Alea Gage FPPA'08

Alea Gage, 2008 Coro Fellow:

With passions towards neighborhood improvement and community pride in sense of place, my placement at Seifel Consulting was an excellent introduction to urban planning in the business sector. Seifel Consulting provides land use and real estate advisory services that assist clients in development that is economically sound as well as socially responsible. I learned that through integrity and vision, business can conduct itself in a way that is conscious both of bottom line and public good. Not to mention, the staff at Seifel exuded energy and experience, and further demonstrated that business can play a crucial role in the greater dialogue of the city. 

The project I was involved with most clearly illustrated this philosophy. With rezoning efforts in San Francisco’s Eastern Neighborhoods currently underway, the Planning Department approached Seifel and requested their assistance with identifying and quantifying community needs at present and into the future given projected population in the Eastern Neighborhoods. Ultimately, the research I contributed to will be integrated into a study showing the nexus between the need for additional public facilities and the impact from new development. The Board of Supervisors will then decide on a reasonable and proportionate fee, called impact fees, assessed to new development to meet the community needs relative to the impact of the new development.

Through interviews with city officials in various agencies, I began to get a sense of the importance of fairness to developers and of meeting community need. I enjoyed a front row seat to view how impact fees are the result of informed decisions that factor in neighborhood and community enrichment alongside economic growth and revitalization. These issues will continue to be central to the future of our city. As well as expanding my research and communication skills, I am grateful for the responsibility and confidence the Seifel staff placed in me as a team member and a colleague for four exciting weeks.

"Alea's contribution to the Seifel team in just four weeks was simply phenomenal. She quickly got up to speed on nexus studies, understood her role, and went to work. During a busy time for the firm, Alea's fresh ideas and energy helped complete the San Francisco Eastern Neighborhoods needs analysis."

- Abbie Conlee, Seifel Consulting Inc.

Tuan Ngo, Larissa Roesch and John Iannuccillo

Tuan Ngo,2008 Coro Fellow:

My business placement was with Dodge & Cox, a privately-owned investment management firm that operates from a single office in San Francisco. For my project, I researched and presented a report on Korean corporate governance and how value might be transferred away from shareholders to management, government, or within the company itself. This project helped a team of analysts from Dodge & Cox to prepare to meet with companies in South Korea.

Being placed at Dodge & Cox changed my perception of the business sector. I now understand that the individuals who create the culture and the structure of the business have the authority to shape it to whatever form they desire. In that sense, what has been paramount to the success of Dodge & Cox is the culture it has cultivated: clients always come first and respect for your co-workers is at the heart of the firm. I also learned that a business is not static: it continually evolves to meet new challenges. Dodge & Cox has managed to evolve without losing its core values.

This placement also challenged me to learn how to adapt quickly in situations that are initially foreign and overwhelming. Without any background in finance, I was thrown into the bond trading room and was asked to design a project on my own. After many questions and "WOA" (Wedge of Awareness) moments, I began to enjoy the challenges and discovered a deep interest for finance that I didn't have before. Working at Dodge & Cox was thought-provoking, challenging, and very fun!

Overall, the business rotation deepened my understanding of issues surrounding corporate accountability, particularly the role of the business sector in the democratic process and its relationship to governments in different countries. With this knowledge, I am excited to explore the relationship between the business sector and workers' rights in my next placement with a labor union.

“Dodge & Cox was pleased to host Tuan Ngo, our twelfth Coro Fellow. In part due to the fluid nature of the financial markets, we intentionally do not define projects in advance and expect Coro Fellows to utilize their training and self-direction to drive their placement projects. Tuan did not disappoint, and proved to be exceptionally intrepid in framing his research topic, tracking down resources, and assimilating vast quantities of information. The outcome was a project that both provided Tuan with an interesting assignment and Dodge & Cox with useful research.” 

                                                               -Larissa Roesch, Dodge & Cox

Coro Fellows Explore Labor Issues

The Fellows began their four-week Labor Placements on Monday, November 12^th. Coro would like to thank the following organizations and individuals for hosting Fellows. We are lucky to have such amazing partners who take time and energy out of their work to mentor and support Coro Fellows. The success of the Coro Fellows Program depends on our wonderful Field Faculty!

Communication Workers of America Local 9415
Field Faculty: Bill Harvey 

San Francisco Building and Construction Trades Council
Field Faculty: Michael Thèriault

United Educators of San Francisco
Field Faculty: Linda Plack

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)
Field Faculty: Grace Martinez

San Mateo Labor Council
Field Faculty: Shelley Kessler

La Raza Centro Legal
Field Faculty: Renèe Salcedo

San Francisco Firefighters Local 798
Field Faculty: John Hanley

California Labor Federation AFL-CIO
Field Faculty: Anastasia Ordonez

People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER)
Field Faculty: Aspen Branch-Moore

Young Workers United
Field Faculty: Sonya Mehta

Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1021
Field Faculty: Pattie Tamura

California Teachers’ Association
Field Faculty: Rebeca Zoglman

Thank You to Our Special Guests

Coro would like to thank the following individuals for serving as seminar guests during the past month. These individuals give the Fellows a unique perspective on various leadership styles and career paths. We are grateful for the knowledge, perspective, candor, humor, and inspiration that these guests so generously provide to our Fellows!

   Mike Hannigan, Co-Founder and President; Give Something Back Business Products

   Jonathan Hoyt, Associate Principal; Heidrick & Struggles

   David Onek, founding Executive Director; Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice

   Lori Shannon; Founder, Owner, and Operator; See Jane Run

   Sharon Miller, CEO; Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center

Exploring Leadership

Fall Exhibition

On Saturday, November 10, at the Coro office, the Youth Fellows presented their Community Impact Projects in front of dozens of volunteer community evaluators.  These projects range from starting a Red Cross Club to organize blood drives and train students in CPR to offering a babysitting service to parents of children with mental disabilities like autism and Down Syndrome.  The students shared how their projects will accomplish stated outcomes to benefit communities and make a long-lasting impact. 

Monica Guerra presenting her project	Cory Mickels presenting his project

Click here for Exploring Leadership 2007 Community Impact Projects. 

Congratulations to the Exploring Leadership Class of 2007

At the November 14^th “Stepping-Up, Stepping-Out” graduation ceremony the Youth Fellows gave reports on their Community Impact Projects taking place in their respective high school and neighborhood communities.  We wish our newest graduates the best of luck as they enter the next phase of their leadership journey. Coro thanks Board Member and San Francisco Library Commissioner Steve Coulter for helping to secure a wonderful location in the main San Francisco Public Library.  We also want to thank the many funders who make this program possible. Please click HERE for the list of our generous sponsors.

CORO’S EXPLORING LEADERSHIP PROGRAM 2007 GRADUATES

East Bay Group:

MUHAMMAD ASAAD - Metwest High School
AUJANISEE BENNETT-JACKSON – Emery Secondary School
DOMINIQUE CROSBY – Oakland Unity High School
RAHEL GEBREGZIABHER - Holy Names High School
AWOT GHIRMAI - The College Preparatory School
JORGE LABASTIDA - College Preparatory and Architecture Academy (Fremont)
PARKER MENZIMER - Albany High School
FRANCO NGUON - BEST High School, McClymonds Educational Complex
HOANGLAN NGUYEN - Oakland Military Institute
ANDREA NODAL - Oakland Military Institute
JAZMINE PHILLIPS - Holy Names High School
MICHELLE ROTHHAMMER-RUIZ - St. Joseph Notre Dame High School
WENDY WU - Oakland Technical High School
LIRIO ZEPEDA - Hayward High School

San Francisco Group

KAIMI BAILEY - Mission High School
DANICE DELOS SANTOS - Phillip and Sala Burton High School
MONICA GUERRA - Balboa High School
WAYLAND HE - Galileo High School
STEPHANIE LIN - Mills High School
COLLEEN MA - Abraham Lincoln High School
CORY MICKELS - June Jordan School for Equity
JACQUELINE MONCADA - Gateway High School
SORAYA OKUDA - Lowell High School
CLEVER PADILLA - Mission High School
JOSSELYN RECINOS - The Bay School of San Francisco
HENNA SAWHNEY - Metropolitan Arts and Technology High School
ARACELI TAMAYO-LEE - Lowell High School
HAI CHI VU - George Washington High School
OSIRIS WALLS - Metropolitan Arts and Technology High School
MICHAEL WANG - George Washington High School

	Group picture after the graduation
The Graduation Procession
	Graduates eagerly waiting to receive their certificates

Ifeanyi Michael Ezeh, Jr. Spirit Award Recipient

Congratulations to Lirio Zepeda for receiving the Ifeanyi Michael Ezeh, Jr. award.  This award was created to pay tribute to Ifeanyi Michael Ezeh, Jr.  He was an EL ’06 graduate who died on June 9, 2007, after collapsing during a recreational soccer game in Alameda.  Ifeanyi was 16 years old and had just finished his junior year at St. Joseph Notre Dame High School.  This award recognizes one member of the graduating class who captures Ifeanyi’s spirit of intellectual curiosity, being a persistent team player, and a bold thinker.  Because Ifeanyi was a scholar as well, Lirio will receive a $1,000 scholarship sponsored by Bank of the West (where Ifeanyi interned last summer) upon entering college to help with the purchase of books and school supplies.  We thank Bank of the West for their generous contribution.

L to R: Amy Chan, Coro Director of Youth Programs; Rebeca Rangel, Representative from Bank of The West; Lirio Zepeda, award recipient; Michael Ezeh, Ifeanyi's father; Chirido Ezeh, Ifeanyi's brother; Jeff Sosnaud, Coro Executive Director.

EL Alumni College and Career Night

On Thursday, December 6^th, Coro hosted its first ever “College & Career Night” event for our Exploring Leadership high school junior and senior alumni.  The students were matched up for three 20-minute one-on-one sessions with Coro alumni and many individuals new to the Coro network. During these sessions students learned insights about the decision-making processes involved in determining which colleges to apply to and which career paths to explore.  There were coaches who represented large, public, private, and liberal arts colleges and professions in marketing, engineering, architecture, public policy, etc. 

Both the students and the adults walked away inspired from the experience.  One EL alumnus shared, “I’m so glad that I came out for this event.  Now I want to study abroad!”  And one College & Career coach shared, “The great questions that all of you asked is pushing me to re-evaluate my own career.”   

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ALUMNI NEWS AND EVENTS

NCAA 2007 Annual Gathering Update

From October 26 to October 28, the Coro National Alumni Association (CNAA) held its National Gathering in St. Louis, Missouri. Our goal: to reconnect, share stories, and envision how CNAA could make an impact on the Coro community.

The first day began with a "logic study" of St. Louis, where we examined a regional riverfront and parks greenway initiative. The second and third days were filled with seminars, Coro "Toolbox" workshops, and an assortment of working groups.

The result?  

Excitement, interconnectivity, and deep dialogue. Coro alums from all programs and Centers dove into a variety of public affairs-related issues, from Social Marketing to Public-Private Partnerships for Large Civic Projects. We asked insightful questions, brainstormed solutions, and discussed methods of applying the Coro experience to our jobs. Finally, the Gathering closed with an announcement by Scott Syphax – chair of the National Board of Governors – that Coro was launching a bold new initiative to raise millions of dollars to support the Centers and the alumni network.  

2008 will be an exciting year for Coro. Along with a National Gathering in Los Angeles, CNAA will be putting the finishing touches on its web-based Alumni database, creating Coro merchandise, and publishing a new Coro "History Book." Stay tuned - we'll update you as these projects develop.

Again, thank you for your support and for being a part of Coro. We hope to see you in Los Angeles next year.


Regards,

Bruce Jang (FPPA '06, SF)

Secretary, CNAA Board of Directors


For more information on the Coro National Alumni Association, visit the CNAA website. For photos from the Gathering, click here. 

Coro Alumni Enagagement Team Meeting Report Back

Thirteen Coro Alumni from various programs, centers, and decades gathered on Thursday, November 8, to strategize about ways to better connect the Coro Alumni community here in the Bay Area. The group discussed how to offer more opportunities to alumni to get involved socially, for academic and/or career interest, and to be able to give back to Coro. 

After a lot of exciting ideas and dialogue the group settled on two primary outcomes. The first is a series of monthly events where Coro Alumni will have the chance to explore different cutting edge topics with a social gathering component. Look out for an announcement about the first event slated to take place in January. As a second objective they are exploring different online community options that when implemented will allow Coro Alumni to interact virtually on a regular basis. 

If you are interested in learning more about or getting involved in either of these initiatives, please contact Katie Koski at kkoski@coro.org. Coro would like to thank Jim Cervantes and Stone & Youngberg for generously hosting the meeting in their office and donating snacks for everyone and Jim Murray for facilitating the evening’s discussion.

Alumni Spotlight: Ratna Amin

Ratna Amin, Coro Fellow in Public Affairs, San Francisco, 2005.

I was first introduced to Coro by a good friend of mine who did Teach For America with me in Phoenix. She had done the program in Los Angles. I decided to apply when I realized that I really wanted to grow and be challenged, but I didn’t know where I wanted to work or exactly what kind of work I really wanted to do. The Coro Fellows Program seemed like an opportunity to explore several different sectors in order for me to find where I could learn and develop professionally.

During my time as a Coro Fellow, I realized that Coro teaches individuals to look ahead and figure out how to solve problems and how to do things better than we do now. I learned to be more cognizant of how words, actions and processes lead to outcomes, and how to be more responsible for my own outcomes. In addition, I also learned specific information about the people, organizations, and issues in the Bay Area. The areas of focus where I learned the most were in labor, state government, and politics.

During the Follows Program I decided that upon completing the program I wanted to be in a dynamic, decision-making role, and ideally working as a policy advisor to an elected official. This guided my project selection process for my independent field placement, where I had great field faculty (Community Fellows Alum Libby Schaaf) and met my future employer. Currently, I am a legislative aide to Oakland City Council President Ignacio De La Fuentes (District 5). I work on analyzing and writing legislation, media relations, problem-solving across the city, and serve as a liaison to two parts of our District. It is the knowledge that I gained from Coro about various political stakeholders that has helped me navigate my current position successfully. 

Due to my connections through Coro, I know a number of people in a broad range of organizations. My Coro network is a group of people who I find ambitious, personable, analytical, and collaborative and I call upon them often for advice or support.

Alumni Spotlight: Laney Whitcanack

Laney Whitcanack, Coro Fellow in Public Affairs, St. Louis, 1998.

I first heard about the Coro program when I was working for a nonprofit in Mexico City, Mexico after college.   One of my friends sent me a letter about how she had gone through an eight hour interview process and had been accepted to Coro, a public affairs training program.  She said that the interview was one of the most powerful learning experiences she'd ever had and that the program was perfect for me. As I researched Coro, I realized how relevant the organization was to my post-college work. At my small nonprofit, I had started to observe how no single sector stood on its own – we were dependent upon relationships with the government and the private sector to keep operating. In addition, I quickly realized that to be a leader in the nonprofit sector, I had to better understand the interdependencies among people working in different arenas.  

Through the Fellows Program, I was given a set of real world skills which opened up a range of professional possibilities that I never knew existed.  Coro’s mix of field placements and training helped me realize that any system-- from the sewer system of St. Louis to the operations of a restaurant chain-- contains interesting challenges, structures, and people that I can explore and learn from.  For my independent project, I organized a downtown block party for the city of St. Louis to watch the series finale of Seinfeld. We projected the show onto the side of a building and after seeing 5,000 people come from all over St. Louis to a neighborhood that was abandoned and empty most evenings, I realized that I had the ability to bring people together when I took risks and thought big.  Equipped with an increased awareness of my own skills and the tools I learned in Coro, my professional life has taken the shape of an extended Coro experience.

While working for Coro in San Francisco in the late 1990s, I developed new training ideas and programs such as the Community Fellows program and the UCSF Faculty Leadership Collaborative.  Additionally, after a discussion with one of the Exploring Leadership (EL) students, Kristi Smith Knutson (another Coro employee) and I were inspired to create The Princess Project (www.princessproject.org). The Coro team helped us along the way as our efforts to find a prom dress for one EL grad grew into a sustainable non-profit organization that provides thousands of Bay Area high school girls each year with free prom dresses and accessories.  We would never have started The Princess Project without Coro's support. Board members, dress collectors, volunteers, and storage all came from the Coro community.

Currently, I am the co-founder of a community software company called Big Tent.  The co-founder of the company, Nicholas Chim, was one of my fellows from The Community Fellows Program.  He and I reconnected a couple of years ago and started thinking about ways to create a free online solution for trusted community groups to stay connected and organized.  The result is a venture funded start-up company that is two years old and has fifteen employees, including four Coro graduates.   Building a business has been an exciting challenge--different from building The Princess Project, different from leading programs at Coro, and different from working in government.  The skills I learned in Coro, however, allowed me to navigate across sectors and continually help me to lead and learn wherever I am. 

Alumni Updates

Vicenta Arrizon, FPPA 2005 SF, is a recruiting assistant with Boston Consulting Group, an international strategy and management consulting firm whose mission is to help leading corporations create and sustain competitive advantage. 

David Hurford, Jr., FPPA 1974 SF, is a managing director of Cushman & Wakefield in Southern California.

Fatima Kassam, FPPA 2002 SF, has reunited with her Coro political campaign placement supervisor Mark Mosher (see below) as the deputy director of the California Commission on Jobs and Economic Growth, focusing on removing barriers to keeping jobs in the state, among many other objectives. Fatima worked in Africa on international development projects and earned an MA in economic development and international economics last year.

Bruce Jang, FPPA 2006 SF, is a Funder Services Manager at the Taproot Foundation, a San Francisco-based pro bono consulting firm for nonprofits. He is also the new Board Secretary of the Coro National Alumni Association.

Gizelle Mapanda, EL 2003, is in nursing school at Samuel Merritt College in Oakland following three years of pre-requisite schooling at St. Mary’s College of California. Gizelle participated in the Bonner Leadership program and is a volunteer at a senior center for residents with dementia.

Masum Momaya, FPPA 2000 SF, is the Curator of Women, Power & Politics at the International Museum of Women in San Francisco.

Mark Mosher, CF 1993, currently serves as the Executive Director for the California Commission for Jobs and Economic Growth, which works with some of the state’s most prominent leaders from business, labor, academia, and community organizations. He is also a political strategist and media consultant as a partner at Barnes, Mosher, Whitehurst, Lauter & Partners, and was the founder of San Francisco Works, the innovative welfare-to-work initiative launched by the Committee on Jobs, the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, and the United Way.

Terry Nagel, CLP 2003, won a second four-year term on the Burlingame City Council in November.

Monica Rico, FPPA 1991 SF, is an assistant professor of history at Lawrence University in Appleton, WI.

Monica Villalobos, FPPA 2002 SF, is the executive director at Transportation and Land Use Collaborative of Southern California.

Midge Wilson, CF 1990, executive director of the Bay Area Women’s and Children’s Center, is the Chair of the Koshland Committee and a former Koshland Awardee.   She also serves on the board of trustees of San Francisco Day School and is Board President of the Tremors Youth Synchronized Skating Team of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Tara Wolfson, FPPA 2004 SF, lives in Boise, ID, with her husband and two-year old daughter Petra with their second child due in April. Tara is currently running a congressional campaign for Walt Minnick.

Yiaway Yeh, CLP 2002, won one of four seats on the Palo Alto City Council last month, at age 29 making him the youngest councilmember. Congratulations Yiaway!

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CORO DIALOGUE

Sports and Leadership

What does it mean to be a dynamic leader in sports?  What lessons from sports leadership can be translated into our own leadership journeys? 

As soon as these questions were introduced, our hands were reflexively in the air. Sports and leadership, leadership in sports….sports and leadership……leadership in sports!  Tossing modesty out the window for a moment, who better could answer these questions than Alea Gage and Zach Blume:  two passionate sports fans and players and two Fellows in the deep throes of leadership training here at the Coro Center of Civic Leadership?  Well, here’s our best shot. . .

Read Zach and Alea’s blog and share your opinion on sports and leadership by logging on to http://COROCENTERBLOG.blogspot.com. 

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DONOR RECOGNITION

Coro would like to thank the individuals and organizations that provided
valuable financial support since the last issue of The Journey:

Annual Fund

Cliff & Sandy Allenby, David Arfin, Vicenta Arrizon, Emi Ashida, Mike Bedwell, Jon L. Benjamin, Judy Berger & Associates, Kathy Blackburn, Boston Consulting Group, Peggy Waters Bowhay in memory of James H. Bowhay ’56, Adalee Goldberg Brown, Luis Buhler, Richard M. Butrick, Heather Cameron, Kathryn Campbell, Natasha Cattolico, Carol A. Chetkovich, Lucia Choi-Dalton, May Choi, Ralph N. Cole, Michael Y. Corbett, Kim Cranston, Virginia S. Davis, Thomas A. DeRiemer, PK Diffenbaugh, Thomas J. Dooley, Linda K. English, Victoria Rothberg Faerstein, Vic Fazio, Susan Fiering & Anthony D’Agastino, Robert Fleri, Elise Gautier, Virginia C. Gee in honor of Amy Chan, Ed Gerber, Patricia & Michael Goldhamer, Jeff Gordon, Harry & Shirley Hagey, James Hogeboom, David Hurford, Jr., Tina C. Hobson, Miles Ito, Claudia Jasin, Christine Johnson, David DeWitt Johnson, Timothy Johnson, Betty Jones, Marsha Jones in memory of Jeremy Jones, Rozanne Junker, Kelley Karandjeff & Phillip Kilbridge in honor of Tracey Jones, Barbara & Ron Kaufman, Kouslaa Kessler-Mata, Laura Lanzerotti, Julienne Lau, Nancy Lee, Michele Lynn, Elly Matsumura in honor of Alexandra Kent, Marian E. Melendy, Barbara Morrissette, Kenneth F. Mountcastle, David Nelson, Jeremey Newberg, Cynthia Norman, Jean Nudelman, Beth Parker, Stewart Ramsay, Doris J. Rodriquez, Ray Roeder, Natalie Samarjian, Dr. Thomas E. Sawyer, Libby Schaaf, Betty & Jack Schafer, Scott Shafer, Miriam Sun Shapira, Karen C. Shiraki, John Smart, Jane Blake Stallman, Scott & Debbie Stauffer, Nancy T. Taylor in memory of Jeremy Jones, Dana Thompson, Toni Trejo, Milton von Damm, Zachary Wald, Stephen S. Weiner, Arlene J. Willits, Jacqueline Yau, Kymberle Zielinski.

General Operating

The Hellman Familiy

Exploring Leadership

Gerson & Barbara Bakar, CBRE, Jane F. Curran Charitable Trust, GGS Foundation

Fellows Program In Public Affairs

California Labor Federation, California Teachers Association, City of Berkeley, Dodge & Cox, Heidrick & Struggles, McKesson Foundation, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, POWER, Republic Urban Properties, San Francisco Building and Construction Trades Council, San Francisco Fire Fighters Local 798, San Mateo Labor Council, SEIU Local 1021, United Educators of San Francisco.

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OPPORTUNITIES AND JOBS IN THE COMMINUTY

For a listing of current opportunities please click HERE.

Announce your Job Opportunities through the Coro Website by going to: www.coro.org/submitjob

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CONTACT US

Coro’s main number is 415-986-0521

Alphabetical Staff Roster:

Name	Title	Email	Ext.
Minden Bennion	Fellows Program Director	mbennion@coro.org	104
Toni Cassar	Operations and IT Manager	tcassar@coro.org	100
Amy Chan	Youth Programs Director	achan@coro.org	105
Tracey Jones	Donor Relations Manager	tjones@coro.org	106
Katie Koski	Outreach and Communications Manager	kkoski@coro.org	102
Patrick O'Heffernan	Director of Finance and Development	poheffernan@coro.org	107
Jeffrey Sosnaud	Executive Director	jsosnaud@coro.org	101

 

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 The JOURNEY, a publication of the Coro Center for Civic Leadership–December 2007