Building a cross-sector, diverse coalition of emerging leaders throughout St. Louis.
NLC St. Louis works to foster a joyful, interconnected system of place-based leaders in Missouri. We do this by centering proximate leaders in our community, with a focus on uplifting an individual’s lived experience. Through our programming, NLC St. Louis cultivates a system of accountability and kinship in order to dismantle traditional power structures within our region.
Since our founding, we’ve trained over 150 place-based leaders in St. Louis
The 2021 cohort represented 8 different sectors, including government, nonprofit, law, education, communications, politics, and arts.
Two of our alumni were selected to lead a 25-person federal stimulus advisory board.
I loved my cohort and the variety of experiences, expertise, and fields they represented. Mostly, I enjoyed building relationships with them as whole people and look forward to deepening those relationships with action and organizing within our communities.
I love my cohort! They’re the best part of NLC. We had grad students, corporate leaders, medical professionals and non-profit leaders. We had more non-profits than anything else so I’m interested in how they felt about the diversity but for someone with a corporate background, the group kept me grounded in a way I’ve never gotten working in my field.
2021 Fellows
Alumni
2020
Aida Miskic
Ajia Knight Brooks
Alexandria Burns
Allison Brewer
Becky Reinhart
Brianna Tobias
Chloe Owens
Colleen Durfee
Elise Giammanco
Gregory Wesloh
Irene Taranhike
Isabelle Yisak
Jay-Marie Hill
Jessireé Jenkins
Melanie Houston
Pacia Anderson
Rachel Kirchoff
Ryan Griffin
Samantha Dickens
Sarah Rose
Stephanie Co
Victoria Donaldson
2019
Bomi Park
Brock Ingmire
Caroline Swaller
Chris LaBanca
Danielle Nygaard
Ellen O’Neill
Fatima Alvi
Haley Shoaf
Jenn DeRose
Jenny Connelly-Bowen
Jermaine Brookshire
Kelsey Wingo
Kyle Lackey
Lavoughnda White
Liz Kramer
Maleeha Ahmad
Mary Quandt
Nay’Chelle Harris
Rebecca Craig
Roya Massoudnia
Yvette Rodriguez
2018
Abby Buckhouse
Alyssa Lazzeroni
Ashley Kuykendall
Charles Purnell
Clair Antoine
David Dwight
Grace Callahan
Jessica Estes
Jill Kline
Matthew Huffman
Nashad Carrington
Natalie Lucas
Purvi Patel
Sarah Arnosky
Stephen Eisele
Steven Harowitz
Sunni Hutton
Tasha Kaminsky
Tonia Oglesby
2017
Alona Sistrunk
Bronwyn Ritchie
Colleen Cunningham
Darian Wigfall
Grace Kyung
Jake Hollander
Jessica Payne
Jessica Lambrecht
Jon Clancy
Jordan Ault
Katy Peace
Lee Camp
Matthew Bernstine
Mia Ranard
Molly Pearson
Richard Juang
Ronika Gillon
Samuel Raybu
Sheela Lal
Stephanie Fabre
Wolf Smith
2016
Amelia Jones
Beth Casagrand
Betsy Dankenbring
Bri Ehsan
Catherine Gilbert
Craig Yugawa
Elad Gross
Emily Adams
Erin Little
Jessica Hunt
Jon-Paul Johnson
Kayla Wingbermuehle
Marissa Burik
Nickolas Speed
Richard Payton
Theodore Floros
Tim Lumpkins
2015
Alyse Garbisch
Carl Filler
Chelsea Denlow
Chrystal Okonta
Dan Peterson
David Franklin
Jacob Lyonfields
Jennifer Allen
Justin Pevnick
Leah Clybu
Lisa Flegel
Rachel Paul
Terra Neilson
Will Fruhwirth
2014
Andrew Heaslet
Brian Flynn
Chelsea Merta
Jason Pierce
Jason Lewis
Keisha Mabry
Kelly Kaufmann
Kyle Juvers
Marius Johnson
Mark Keaney
Megan Klenke-Isgriggs
Michele L. Watley
Miriam Keller
Scott Bernstein
Tom Nagel
2013
Dave Leipholtz
Elise Miller
Jake Narup
Joe Wilson
Kate Howell
Lisa Clancy
Megan Kimball
Oliver Gould
Paul Sorenson
Pradeep Rajendran
Sarah Felts
Sarah Dirsa
Steven McCullar
2012
Anna Gennari
Bobby Jones
Brandon Rowland
Cady Seabaugh
Carolyn Schopp
Dara Taylor
Erika Kubsch
Gregory Cooper
Heather Navarro
Jason Growe
Jason Stroede
Saint Fults
Travis Johnson