Boards and Commissions Fellowship Alum Shelly Buchanan talks lessons from her fellowship and how she has carried them with her into a career in public service.

As a part of Black Girl Environmentalist’s Reclaiming Our Time Campaign, LCV Education Fund partnered with Cameron Oglesby, project lead for the Environmental Justice Oral History Project, to delve into the power of storytelling.

Many leaders get their start by serving on a local board or commission. Learn how one state fellowship program helps prepare future leaders to serve their communities.

Many Indigenous communities across the country do not have addresses for their homes, making it difficult for emergency services to find them, to receive home care or social services – or to register to vote. The Rural Utah Project, a state affiliate of the LCV Education Fund, made it their mission to identify addresses for thousands of homes in Utah's Navajo Nation.

Shari Baber never felt that City Hall was a place for her, until she became the first Black woman to serve on the Boise Parks and Recreations Commission. A 2021 graduate of the Conservation Voters Movement’s Boards and Commissions Fellowship, Shari reflects on how the program prepared her to serve on the commission and to understand how government policy can drive social justice.

The Fellowship program aims to ensure that the people influencing environmental policy are reflective of their communities, and that we are increasing the share of environmental leaders serving on boards and commissions.