07/29/2024
NLC Sacramento won two national awards at the New Leaders Council Convention in Atlanta this week!!! The Chapter received the Chapter Resiliency Award. The Chapter Resiliency Award recognizes chapters that have successfully risen above challenges, including increasing their number of Fellows, boosting board engagement, connecting with more chapter alumni, or innovating chapter management operations.
Our Chapter Co-Director, Michael Lemus (NLC Sacramento 2019) received the Alumni Power of Stories Award. The Alumni Power of Stories Award recognizes an NLC alumni who uses their personal story to not only shift hearts and minds, but policies and structures too. Ideal awardees are alumni who use their platform - whether in-person or digitally - to share their experiences, trials, wins, and lessons learned to highlight a systematic problem and hopeful solution in their communities. Examples include using stories of overcoming and/or dismantling barriers to bring inclusion or access to others, testifying at a government body using personal anecdotes, or writing a book that has shifted the local or national conversation about a topic.
As we celebrate our 15th year anniversary in Sacramento, we are incredibly grateful for this recognition. Cheers to cultivating community among progressive leaders across Sacramento and the rest of the United States.
