CiviCO’s 10th annual Colorado Governors Fellowship Program just wrapped up its 2025 cohort in Grand Junction, capping a year of traveling the state and learning about what issues affect different areas.

The fellowship was established in 2015 under then-Gov. John Hickenlooper. It’s supported by current Gov. Jared Polis as well as past governors Bill Owens and Bill Ritter. The goal of the program: to create a more robust pipeline to civic service by bringing different perspectives from the public, private and non-profit sectors to build ideological bridges and find solutions to the state’s problems.

In years past, the cohort would meet once per month in Denver over the course of 10 months. A major change this year, however, is that the cohort of roughly 40 members has traveled across the s

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