Deadline: January 5, 2024
Applications are open for the Globally Public Policy New Voices Fellowship Program 2024. The Public Policy New Voices Fellowship Program is a collaboration among leading American public policy graduate schools, premier corporate public policy teams, and some of the most innovative global strategic advisory firms to provide a year-long Fellowship for public policy graduate students from racially underrepresented communities.
PPNV supports and elevates racially underrepresented communities in the field of public policy. In that pursuit, we engage students of color while recognizing the structural challenges that prevent full representation and participation in policy-focused careers.
The program aims to match each Fellow with a paid internship within PPNV partner organization. While securing an internship is not promised, Fellows are supported and coached through the application process to strengthen their chances of being selected and offered summer employment. PPNV does not offer financial assistance directly to Fellows or scholarships. This program provides Fellows with pathways to employment opportunities and an increased network to support their overall professional success in a field with systemic barriers to entry for people of color.
Structure
The PPNV 2024 Fellowship will begin with five fellows assigned as Group Leads (additional short-essay question) with the remaining 35 divided into small groups. Group Leads will:
- Manage and track their group’s engagement.
- Have the opportunity to co-lead a Cohort Connect session and facilitate small group activities.
- Act as the primary point of contact between their group and the Globally Program Lead, Caroline (Caroline will always be available to all fellows throughout the fellowship).
- Support the fellowship in other pre-discussed ways upon request.
Eligibility
- Open to public policy graduate students who self-identify as Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and are U.S. citizens, U.S. residents, or DACA recipients. This includes Black students from the African diaspora, students with tribal citizenship or membership (e.g., citizens of state-recognized or federally-recognized indigenous tribes, or members of unrecognized Native American or Alaska Native tribes), Latino/a students, and students of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) descent. The PPNV 2022 Fellowship will include approximately 40 students and maintains gender parity.
Application
To be considered for the PPNV Fellowship, applicants must commit to:
- Actively participating in 1-2 virtual events per month.
- Demonstrating an internal curiosity and willingness to explore public policy careers across sectors (including the private sector).
- Participating in short video interviews with Globally staff and/or submitting self-recorded video content.
- Producing a written reflection paper at the end of the Fellowship.
- Modeling PPNV’s commitment to community-building, racial diversity, and inclusion.
- Sharing demographic information to assist in tracking PPNV’s long-term progress as a diversity program.
For more information, visit Public Policy New Voices Fellowship.
