Thoughts from Dawn Wallace On Monday, we announced our new cohort of Flinn-Brown Fellows! 28 leaders from across the state were selected as the 15th cohort of Flinn-Brown Fellows. Each new Fellow brings varied career and political experiences, policy interests, and perspectives…

Thoughts from Dawn Wallace It is with a heavy heart that I share the passing of Jack (J.C.) Mutchler on April 10, 2023, in Hereford, Arizona. J.C. was in the inaugural class of Flinn-Brown Fellows in the spring of 2011.…

Thoughts from Dawn Wallace Technology becomes entrenched in our lives so quickly that it is sometimes hard to recall a world without even a recent change. Today, it’s unrealistic and unimaginable to think we could live a day outside the…

Thoughts from Dawn Wallace Since late January, our team has been on the road recruiting for our newest cohort of Fellows. We began in Tucson with an info session hosted by Ted Maxwell and Nicole Barraza (Tucson, 2020) at Southern Arizona Leadership Council, followed…

Thoughts from Dawn Wallace Welcome to 2023, Fellows! In the words of the great American philospher Oprah Winfrey, “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right!” I’ve got a lot to share about the…

Thoughts from Dawn Wallace As I sit down (literally) to write this final message to Fellows for the year, the end credits are rolling on the 2022 FIFA World Cup. It took six goals,120 minutes, and a penalty-kick shootout to…

Thoughts from Dawn Wallace Over the holiday break, I rewatched The Candidate, a 1972 film featuring a charismatic, free-thinking political outsider who is haphazardly thrown into what is expected to be a losing electoral campaign. Not surprisingly, the candidate’s uncompromising…