Learnings

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  • Matthew Koncar Log 3

    Learning Fellow Learning Log

    July 14, 2020

    I have become much more intentional about my leadership since beginning my Bush Fellowship. Two lessons stand out from over the past year and a…

  • Matthew Koncar Log 2

    Learning Fellow Learning Log

    July 14, 2020

    What has stood out most in my leadership development over the last year are the importance of being aware of your strengths and weaknesses as…

  • Matthew Koncar Log 1

    Learning Fellow Learning Log

    July 14, 2020

    Sixteen months ago I completed the six essay questions that comprise the initial Bush Fellowship application. Coming up with compelling responses was difficult, but trimming…

  • Matthew Koncar Log 4

    Learning Fellow Learning Log

    July 14, 2020

    When my Bush Fellowship was announced in June 2020 I was working 14-16 hour days as a police officer responding to civil unrest following the…

  • Laetitia Mizero Hellerud Log 1

    Learning Fellow Learning Log

    July 14, 2020

    This Fellowship is fascinating and challenging beyond what I could have imagined. I am currently enrolled in a Leadership/Organizing/Action course at Harvard Kennedy School that…

  • Laetitia Mizero Hellerud Log 2

    Learning Fellow Learning Log

    July 14, 2020

    I can’t believe I has been almost a year since I started this fellowship. Many things have changed at many levels: the country with the…

  • Laetitia Mizero Hellerud Log 3

    Learning Fellow Learning Log

    July 14, 2020

    As the end of my fellowship nears and I reflect on the many ways I have grown as a leader, the biggest AHA in terms…

  • Laetitia Mizero Hellerud Log 4

    Learning Fellow Learning Log

    July 14, 2020

    I started my fellowship journey three months after my cohort because I was involved in a (partisan) political race to the state senate seat in…

  • Kirsten Hagen Kennedy Log 1

    Learning Fellow Learning Log

    July 14, 2020

    “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom” These words…

  • Kirsten Hagen Kennedy Log 4

    Learning Fellow Learning Log

    July 14, 2020

    My Bush Fellowship journey started with a roar. The planning, plotting and imagining the transformations I would make. The changes in my community, my region,…

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