News and Updates

Flinn-Brown application is now open

February 01, 2022

For civic leaders eager to address Arizona’s long-term issues, there’s no other statewide program like the Flinn-Brown Fellowship. For more than 10 years, the Arizona Center for Civic Leadership at the Flinn Foundation has led the premier leadership program for…


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January 2022 Network News

January 25, 2022

Thoughts from Dawn Wallace Happy New Year! While 2022 hasn’t started out exactly as I hoped—after two years of dodging COVID, my family finally came face to face with the new variant, “He Who Must Not Be Named”—our cases are…


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Flinn-Brown Fellow Kimulet Winzer impacting public policy in health care, early childhood education

January 24, 2022

  Kimulet Winzer  (Phoenix, 2011), Director, SunHawk Consulting, LLC LinkedIn   1. Can you please describe your work and how public policy impacts how you manage your organization?  My work is to advise, direct and counsel as well as to…


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Flinn-Brown Fellow Quintin Boyce leads South Phoenix school district

December 20, 2021

Quintin Boyce (Phoenix, 2019) Superintendent, Roosevelt School District LinkedIn | Twitter 1. Can you please describe your work and how public policy impacts how you manage your organization?  I have the privilege of being the proud Superintendent of the Roosevelt School District. We…


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December 2021 Network News

December 20, 2021

Thoughts from Dawn Wallace “Hope” is the thing with feathers –That perches in the soul –And sings the tune without the words –And never stops – at all  – Emily Dickinson Recently, a colleague suggested I watch an Apple TV+…


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Flinn-Brown Fellow Elyse Guidas connecting food to people

November 29, 2021

Elyse Guidas (Phoenix, 2019) Executive Director, Activate Food Arizona LinkedIn | Twitter 1. Can you please describe your work and how public policy impacts how you manage your organization?  Activate Food Arizona connects food to people. In both urban and rural communities…


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November 2021 Network News

November 29, 2021

Thoughts from Dawn Wallace Thank you to all the Fellows who joined us at the Heard Museum for the 2021 Flinn-Brown Convention! It was a real pleasure to meet you all—some of you whom I’ve gotten to know through phone…


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