Feb 3, 2025
EL25: Tickets on sale now! Reserve your seat! On May 8, 2025, we’ll celebrate the impact and achievements of the 2025 John W. Gardner Award recipients Cindy Chavez and Mike Gaulke and the 2025 Greg Ranstrom Network Leadership Award recipient Asian Pacific American...
Jan 13, 2025
ALF National Presents | We The People: Finding Common Ground for the Common Good We joined ALF because we believed in the power of joining and strengthening diverse leaders to serve the common good. Now, as we move into a new administration following a divisive...
Dec 4, 2024
ALF Insight’s newest faculty member, Rev. Michael-Ray Mathews, has built a career at the intersection of faith and community organizing. He is the Principal for Prophetic Foundry, LLC, a consultancy at the nexus of spirituality, healing, and justice. The Compton...
Dec 2, 2024
American Leadership Forum plays such a unique role in bringing leaders together across a variety of differences and silos that we find ourselves in; and not just through the Fellows Program—but through the 100+ network convenings that we facilitate every year. I’m...
Nov 6, 2024
I lived in San Bruno during the ’89 earthquake, and I vividly remember the days following. Neighbors ate dinner outside in community. We grabbed hands during unsettling aftershocks. We made sure each other had batteries for transistor radios. We tried to shore...
Oct 23, 2024
“I don’t know why I’m still here. I thought I would have transitioned by now.” My 85-year-old dad shared his frustration with me as he lay in bed two weeks ago, struggling to do many of the daily tasks of living anymore—like eating, walking, breathing, remembering...
Oct 10, 2024
ALF Senior Fellow Barry Williams (Class XX) recently published an executive summary of 100 Black Voices: Black Corporate Directors Video Archive Project, which aims to conduct 85-100 video interviews of leading black corporate directors and create a video library for...
Oct 2, 2024
New Episode of ALF’s The Dialogue Podcast! In the latest episode of ALF’s The Dialogue Podcast, we’re featuring Senior Fellow Cynthia Bright of Class XLIII. Cynthia is the Deputy General Counsel and Global Head of Litigation Ethics and Compliance at...
Sep 26, 2024
To many, the upcoming election is seen as the most consequential in our lifetime, in part because the political divisions across the country are so deep. Not only are there differences of opinion on policy matters, but people in both parties have begun to identify... 
