Macker selected for Rodel Fellowship

Teton County Commissioner Natalia D. Macker Joins Highly Selective Rodel Fellowship Class of 2026

December 8, 2025

Teton County Commissioner and President of the Wyoming County Commissioners Association Natalia D. Macker was selected for the Class of 2026 Rodel Fellowship. The Rodel Fellowship is the nation’s premier leadership development program for elected leaders. Each year, the program selects 24 outstanding state and local leaders, divided between the political parties, to come together for a series of three multi-day seminars held over a two-year period. Working with leading scholars as moderators, the fellows read and discuss classic texts dealing with ethical values, democratic principles, and wise and effective leadership. Those texts include the Declaration of Independence, the preamble to the United States Constitution, selections from The Federalist Papers and writings by Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King, Jr., among many others.

“I am delighted and honored for the opportunity to take part in the Rodel Fellowship with colleagues from around the nation. This moment in our nation requires that each of us commit to engaging fully in our democracy, collaborating to renew our understanding of and commitment to public service,” says Commissioner Macker. “Having just completed the first seminar weekend focused on principled leadership, I look forward to implementing my learning in the coming year.”

Since its founding in 2005, the Rodel Fellowship has helped 425 state and local elected officials reach their full potential as public servants. These fellows have gone on to serve as United States senators, governors, mayors, party leaders, Cabinet secretaries, members of Congress, and Vice President of the United States. Macker was previously selected for the Rodel class of 2020, which was interrupted due to the pandemic and an organizational restructure of the Rodel Institute. Following completion of the Rodel Fellowship seminars, Fellows have an opportunity to gather periodically with alumni of the program to discuss critical questions of public policy and public leadership in a nonpartisan setting.

For more information, please visit https://www.rodelinstitute.org/programs/rodel-fellowship/.