St. Louis

The Coro Fellowship in St. Louis develops civic leaders by immersing them in rigorous, experiential, community-based leadership training. Coro Fellows are trained to effectively work across sectors, catalyze systems, and accelerate positive change.

Since 1973, the St. Louis Coro Fellows Program has equipped emerging civic leaders in the St. Louis region with the resources they need to understand how decisions are made, how complex policies are shaped, and how to influence meaningful change. Using the community as a classroom, Coro Fellows learn through interactions with private, public, and nonprofit decision-makers and work as a group to develop critical thinking, analytical, governance, and leadership skills. Coro Fellows join an unparalleled community of engaged alumni and leave the program with an understanding of how our region works and with the knowledge and skills to make it better. Coro Fellowship graduates can be found in every sector of the St. Louis economy – from building the BioTech industry to holding elected office to representing leaders in economic development and criminal justice reform, Coro Fellow graduates are difference makers. Coro.

A new partnership with the University of Missouri – St. Louis will help reestablish that tradition as the program restarts with a new Fellows class in the fall of 2021 at UMSL. Click here to read the full announcement about the Coro partnership with UMSL.

Coro Fellows are bright, self-initiating, and self-managing individuals with a firm commitment to community and civic engagement. They have diverse personal identities across race, ethnicity, age, gender, and sexual orientation and come from varied socioeconomic, educational, work, geographic, and political backgrounds. This diversity allows Fellows to learn how disparate individuals can work together to solve problems. The program demands stamina, rigorous thinking and analysis, and a deeply self-reflective approach to learning.