Yuma County issued the following announcement on Nov. 5.
Although it took a little longer than expected thanks largely to COVID, the June 2020 class of cohorts have completed the Flinn-Brown Fellows program and Yuma County Recorder Robyn Stallworth-Pouquette has now become one of only a handful of Arizonans who have successfully completed this program offered by the Arizona Center for Civic Leadership.
Pouquette was selected in June 2020 as one of 31 civic leaders in the newest cohort of Flinn-Brown Fellows. The competitive, nonpartisan Fellowship—Arizona’s premier state-level civic leadership program—attracts leaders from the private and public sectors, with a diversity of perspectives and experience.
“This was truly an amazing experience and I feel my skills have been elevated as an elected official because of the substance of the program and the connections with leaders within the Flinn-Brown network,” explains Pouquette. “The entire program is priceless.”
Fellows participate in the Flinn-Brown Civic Leadership Academy, a 12-day sequence of learning, accomplished over several weekends, on topics ranging from the economy, PreK-12 and higher education, public health, natural resources and energy, criminal justice, communications, media relations and more.
For the 2020 Fellows, COVID-19 forced a yearlong delay for the Academy to fall 2021. Pouquette will attend the Flinn-Brown Convention on November 12, which is a daylong opportunity for skill building, dialogue, and network building for all Fellows. The Flinn-Brown Network now includes nearly 400 leaders selected since 2011.
The Flinn-Brown Fellowship is one initiative of the Arizona Center for Civic Leadership at the Flinn Foundation. In addition to Flinn-Brown, the Center offers Arizona Civic Exchange—or CivEx—which creates opportunities for the public to become better informed and educated on political and policy topics impacting their communities and promotes civic engagement through the Civic Leadership Collaborative, convening Arizona’s organizations to advance the goal of building strong leaders in every community in the State.
The Flinn Foundation is a Phoenix-based private, nonprofit, grantmaking organization, founded by Dr. Robert S. Flinn and Irene P. Flinn in 1965 with the mission, “To improve the quality of life in Arizona to benefit future generations.” Along with the Arizona Center for Civic Leadership, the foundation supports the advancement of Arizona’s bioscience sector, the Flinn Scholars Program, and Arizona arts and culture organizations.
The Thomas R. Brown Foundations of Tucson is a partner in the Flinn-Brown program. It supports solutions to community and state issues through grants and educational programs in the areas of research and education, workforce development, civic leadership, and economics education.
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