High Road Stories

NYC High Roads Fellows sit down with Ligia Guallpa and Antonio Solis of Los Deliveristas Unidos, a group working toward giving app delivery workers access to basic labor rights. The following week they met with Dr. Teofilo Reyes, chief program officer at Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC).

Buffalo High Road Fellow Laura Wang reflects on her fellowship experience alongside high road principles of sustainability and environmental justice.

The original High Road Fellowship has been a longstanding program operating out of Buffalo. Although the lofty ambitions of the NYC pilot program may feel like flying the plane while building it, the exceptional people behind the experiment have pulled it together. 

Buffalo High Road Fellow Timo Isreb (ILR '26) uses poetry to reflect on the idea and practice of democracy.

Lila Tauzin-Fox reflects on the first few days of the Buffalo High Road Fellowship.

Buffalo High Road Fellow Nshera Tutu explores her positionality and experiences in the work she is doing this summer.

High Road Fellow Eva Egeghy reflects on her first week in Buffalo.

This summer marks the 15th year of the High Road Fellowships and the 5th year for the Democracy Summer Fellowships in Buffalo, NY.

Delilah Hernandez (High Road Fellow 2022) integrates her lived experience and data to discuss environmental racism and tree canopies in Chicago, Illinois