For my Leadership-in-Action project this summer, I am working on the Higher Education Partnerships Team at Braven in their lovely Chicago headquarters! Braven is a nonprofit organization that partners with colleges and universities across the country to provide students from underrepresented backgrounds with a credit-bearing course accelerator that focuses on building leadership skills. Upon completing the course, students receive career coaching services from industry professionals to help them attain a strong first job after graduation. For my first set of assignments, I developed stakeholder maps that traced the organizational structure of our Higher Education Partners and each key administrator's support levels towards the Braven course. These stakeholder maps are an essential resource for Braven to reference when collecting critical survey data and feedback from administrators on how to adjust the course accelerator program to better serve their respective Higher Education partners. I also joined meetings with the Fellow Recruitment team at Braven and got to learn more about their outreach efforts for transfer students and students from nontraditional paths. I am excited to continue my involvement with this incredible organization and contribute to their expansion efforts!