Matt is an experienced educator, activist, and curriculum designer who specializes in training young professionals how to leverage their assets to make change in their communities through storytelling, advocacy, and community organizing. Since 2018, Matt Fulle has been the Learning Design Analyst on the Education Team at the Obama Foundation, where he helps design curriculum for the team’s leadership development programs that serve hundreds of 18-25 year olds across the United States. His work has focused on the Foundation’s 6-month long Community Leadership Corps program, which trains 130 18-25 year olds in Chicago and Hartford, Connecticut how to equitably drive change with their communities through grassroots projects and relationship building.

Before joining the Obama Foundation, Matt worked for Northwestern University as the Advocacy and Organizing Education Coordinator, where he ran the University’s six-month long advocacy training program called the Advocacy Corps. Matt helped start the program as a senior undergraduate in partnership with Northwestern’s Leadership Development and Community Engagement Department (LDCE). He then helped manage the program as a staff member in LDCE. Matt is also an experienced speechwriter, having written for public officials and candidates across the country at every level of government. Matt has a bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies from Northwestern University’s School of Communication.

Matt’s views expressed in this class are his own and are not representative of the Obama foundation.