1 for the road: Out-of-the-box leaders

By: Erica Pandey

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Oral historian Francine D. Spang-Willis. Photo via AP

An oral historian, a civic designer and the head of a nonprofit focused on bringing dignity back to politics are among the new class of fellows supported by Emerson Collective, the organization founded by Laurene Powell Jobs.

• The fellows are all local leaders with fresh ideas on uplifting their cities and states, AP reports.

🌱 In Powell Jobs' words, they're "horticulturalists of hope."

• Oral historian Francine D. Spang-Willis will spend the next year interviewing people with unique and deep perspectives on the Crazy Mountains, near Livingston, Mont., in hopes of generating strategies to steward the landscape.

• Civic designer Rosten Woo will use the funds to create an atlas of civic institutions in Los Angeles where he lives and works.

• Nonprofit leader Tami Pyfer will spread the word about her organization's new method of measuring the amount of contempt or dignity embedded in speech — the Dignity Index.

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