• The Miami 2023-24 cohort at Liberty and Peace Mural, September 2023

    Highlights from the 2023-24 AYLF Cohorts

    By Aspen Young Leaders Fellowship Staff

    As the year comes to a close, we are reflecting on the tremendous energy and love that so many people contribute to making the AYLF experience possible for Fellows. We are excited to share [...]

  • 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 [...]

    Miami 2023-24 cohort members at the Community Impact Project launch, May 2024.
  • AYLF Mississippi & Arkansas 2023-24 cohort at memorial in September 2023

    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, [...]

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Cultivate curiosity and courage.
Explore ideas. Collaborate in community.
Be a Fellow.

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.

Key Results

97%

5-year college
graduation rate

96%

job placement rate
among Fellows who
completed year one

100%

learning gains from
50th to 85th-90th
percentile

95%

increased civic engagement
behaviors to the 95th
percentile of youth
nationally

247

fellows

14

cohorts