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