Our Mission: Launched in the summer of 1998, Exploring Leadership is a summer and after-school fall program designed to engage high school students to become active citizens who have the tools to participate in and improve their communities. Exploring Leadership participants are thirty-six entering 11th graders—eighteen in San Francisco and eighteen in the East Bay—who are interested in expanding their leadership skills by examining community issues and existing public leadership.
What We Do: Exploring Leadership is comprised of a set of modules designed to increase the Youth Fellows’ abilities in problem-solving, critical thinking and goal setting, ultimately giving them the skills necessary to become facilitators and collaborators for community change.
Coro recruits and assembles classes to reflect the full range of diversity of Bay Area youth—from their extracurricular activities, to their amount of leadership experience, to their races and socioeconomic backgrounds.