As another fire season rages across the West, two Flinn Scholar alums are examining the aftermath of the Dragon Bravo and White Sage fires that scorched the Grand Canyon’s remote North Rim a year ago. Together, the two fires burned…

Alexis Danneman, J.D. (Phoenix, 2016) has built her career at the intersection of law and democracy, and she would be the first to tell you that the work is deeply personal. A partner at Perkins Coie, Alexis is a litigator…

I am writing this month's Network News from Portugal, where I have been introduced to one of the more unexpected civic rituals I have encountered: being hit on the head with a plastic hammer.

Daryl Melvin carries something most civic leaders don't: a relationship with this land that stretches back countless generations. Hopi and Navajo, he was raised in Nuvatukya'ovi—Flagstaff—on land that has sustained his family through farming, gathering, and hunting. That connection to…

This year marks 15 years of the Flinn-Brown Fellowship, and we wanted to mark it in a way that feels true to what this Network is about—the people in it, and the communities across Arizona they show up for every…

The Arizona Center for Civic Leadership at the Flinn Foundation has selected 24 Arizonans as 2026 Flinn-Brown Fellows—the 18th cohort of a program that has, since 2011, connected civic-minded leaders across the state with the policy knowledge, peer networks, and…

Barbara “Barb” Lang has called Arizona home for more than three decades. She has lived in Phoenix and Gilbert and now resides in Sierra Vista with her husband, Marc, and their four dogs. Throughout her career, Barb’s focus has remained firmly…