Former civil servants from across the government have been chosen as the inaugural group of fellows for a legal nonprofit’s effort to “reimagine” government.
Former employees from EPA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the National Science Foundation and the Agriculture Department are among the first cohort of fellows announced Thursday by Democracy Forward.
The legal nonprofit, which has been leading court challenges against the Trump administration, announced the launch of its fellowship program earlier this year. The yearlong program — with an advertised $100,000 stipend — was designed “in response to escalating threats to the professional, nonpartisan civil service,” the group said.
Democracy Forward on Thursday announced a project dubbed Democracy Works 250, an effort to “reimagine and build a people-centered government and democracy.” The initiative will be supported by the fellows and led by Kyleigh Russ, who has served as Democracy Forward’s director of good government initiatives and senior adviser of policy since January.
