How AmeriCorps Kept Young Talent in Rural Communities

When Oliver Borchers-Williams was wrapping up his undergrad during the pandemic, he had offers on the table that would have taken him to New York, Washington, D.C., or Los Angeles. 

Instead, the North Dakota-born, Minnesota-bred graduate moved to Nebraska for a public service fellowship that put him to work on broadband access across 16 counties, some of which have fewer than 5,000 residents. Over the next two years that he served as an AmeriCorps-funded fellow in the American Connection Corps program...