This new video series from ALF Silicon Valley’s La Comunidad for Justice, Equity & Inclusion affinity group aims to provide Latino/a/x Senior Fellows with a platform for sharing leadership journeys, gain insights and inspiration, explore opportunities to...
ALF Silicon Valley Celebrates Black History Month with a Spotlight on Trailblazers, Changemakers, and Conveners In honor of Black History Month, we’ve assembled a selection of ALF content from the past and present featuring some of the most accomplished and...
Through the support of the Heising Simons Foundation, ALF Silicon Valley special assignment writer Stefanie Demong has penned an incredible article now featured in the Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) detailing the impact of ALF’s CEO DIEL Cohorts....
An astounding 70% of Senior Fellows from the last five classes are actively collaborating with each other. In case you missed it, here is an incredible story of impact from the Fellows Class that graduated earlier this year. This year’s annual campaign embraces...
A cornerstone of good entrepreneurial leadership is the ability to see opportunity and the courage to act on it. For the past few years, the ALF National Board of Directors has seen an opening taking shape before us in the form of growing polarization, extremism in...
For Senior Fellow Vandana Kumar (Class XXXIX), storytelling is integral to life. From the stories told to her by her maternal grandmother about protecting their property under the British Raj to her mother’s telling of the non-violent resistance formed in her...
Journey from Vietnam All of us are called to be of service to others, and in the best of worlds, our story—our own life—leads us to career choices that allow us to make that happen. This is my story, a story with messages of love, trauma, hope, resilience, and joy. I...
My Personal Story A Book of Life contains many chapters written by our experiences – I’ll give you a Spark Notes version of mine: We spent our winter vacations with my dadi (paternal grandma) in our ancestral home in a small village in rural India. With no...
It began with a desire for a new kind of connection. The idea for the ALF Muslim Affinity Group was first introduced by board member Muhammed Chaudhry (Class XXVI), who wanted to connect with the diverse Muslim Senior Fellows in the ALF network and identify other...
Dear America, Do you see me? I am a daughter of a single mom who made tremendous sacrifices to bring my siblings and me from Vietnam to the United States so we could have better opportunities. My mom wanted to further her education but was pulled out of school after...
