Ensuring Fresh Food for Communities in Miami
Solcyré Burga, AYLF Senior Fellow
Just four weeks before the launch of her team’s community impact project, Leslie Candelario, a 20-year-old participant in the inaugural Aspen Young Leaders Fellowship (AYLF)’s Miami cohort, thought their cohort had hit rock bottom. The [...]
Nurturing Young People’s Service to Community
Solcyré Burga, AYLF Senior Fellow
Prior to his experience with the Aspen Young Leaders Fellowship (AYLF), Nicholas Presley had no intention of settling down in his home state. “Being from Mississippi, you kind of want to leave Mississippi,” Presley, [...]
What Energizes AYLF's Program Facilitators
By Solcyré Burga, AYLF Senior Fellow
When Georgianna Torres Reyes, an associate vice president at DePaul University serving as a facilitator with the Aspen Young Leaders Fellowship’s (AYLF) inaugural Chicago cohort, first logged onto a Zoom call in December 2020, she [...]
Our Why
Only 32% of youth have access to leadership development programs by age 25. 1
Only 50% of colleges and universities offer formal leadership programming despite evidence that it contributes to college persistence. 2
AYLF invests directly in young adult changemakers in the communities where they live and lead.
Our Why
Only 32% of youth have access to leadership development programs by age 25. 1
Only 50% of colleges and universities offer formal leadership programming despite evidence that it contributes to college persistence. 2
AYLF invests directly in young adult change makers in the communities where they live and lead.
