“My Surge Fellowship experience contributed to my personal and professional development by enhancing my influential leadership capacity, reawakening my political consciousness, and strengthening my kinship with other young aspiring leaders…
Melissa Connelly is the Chief Program Officer at OneGoal. In this role, she stewards the organization’s programmatic strategic plan and ensures all internal stakeholders are invested in the organization’s vision…
“The Surge Fellowship has been a unique opportunity to gain critical skills, and develop my capacity for leadership, surrounded by peers and mentors who know and have lived the experiences…
“Surge helped me clarify my purpose and vision for life. My purpose is to connect people of color to opportunity, in order to help create the most diverse cohort of…
“The Surge Fellowship has played a much more significant positive role in my life, both personally and professionally, than I ever expected. I feel I am at the beginning of…