Engage

Graduates of the Fellows Programs become Senior Fellows and continue using the skills and connections from their ALF experience to impact both their community and their work.  Each chapter offers a variety of opportunities designed to help keep Senior Fellows abreast of current leadership teachings, learn about important issues facing their community, and provide opportunities to interact with other Senior Fellows. These events expand the opportunities to connect Senior Fellows across classes to work together on community issues. The resulting ever-expanding network is a vital resource in each ALF community and for the Senior Fellows themselves.

November 28, 2018 Statement on Civil Discourse

As our country continues to witness the escalation of blame-fueled rhetoric, anger-and-hate-driven violence and amplified acts of unprecedented divisiveness, we as Senior Fellows of the American Leadership Forum feel compelled to step up and speak out.

There has never been a better time to double down on living the ALF ideals of dialogue. We know how to do this; this is what we stand for. In that spirit, here are some ways we can all “show up” in this world:

• Use your network to bring diverse thinkers together.
• Practice the art of transformative dialogue.
• Prioritize acts of intentional kindness and education over isolation.
• Seek out rational commentary on opposing views, then seek to understand.
• Avoid the impulse to react and escalate. As Rabbi Oren Hayon of Houston’s Congregation Emanu El recently said, “We cannot disregard anyone’s humanity if we hope to have our own humanity preserved.”
• Speak out against hateful speech and behavior targeted against any group.

Live the ideals of ALF and encourage others to join you on that preferred path. It is time to model the principles of our mission, established nearly 40 years ago, that encourage us all to be leaders in bringing people from all corners of our diverse communities together.

We must ask ourselves, “How am I showing up? What will I do to help facilitate change?”

American Leadership Forum – National Board of Trustees

Beth Boggs, Tacoma, WA                             Chrystal Joy, Charlotte, NC

Debra Brown, Portland, OR                        Albert Najera, Sacramento, CA

Gina Carroll, Houston, TX                            Cyndee Patterson, Charlotte, NC

Troy Christensen, Tacoma, WA                  Rolanda Pierre-Dixon, San Jose, CA

Sam Cook, Myrtle Beach, SC                       Dan Snare, Houston, TX

Louis Cooper, Tacoma, WA                          Wendy Spencer, Merced, CA

Dee Dee Dochen, Houston, TX                   Suzanne St. John-Crane, San Jose, CA

Bonnie Ferreira, Sacramento, CA              Pam Stewart, Sacramento, CA

Reagan Flowers, Houston, TX                    Harriet Wasserstrum, Houston, TX

Kathy Halsey, Modesto, CA                         David Williams, Memphis, TN

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P.O. Box 8201
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Website: www.alfnational.org
E-mail: brenda@alfnational.org