Course(s) Offered: Leadership, Media skills
Course Level: Training, Fellowship
Provider: Aspen Institute
Country to Study in: USA, Africa, India, Central America
Scholarship Description
The Aspen Institute's New Voices Fellowship is a year-long media skills, communication and leadership program designed for standout development professionals from the developing world. This is not a fellowship for journalists or others trained and working in communications. Any development expert in his field can apply.
While the fellowship is non-resident and not full-time, it does require a significant and sustained time commitment as fellows write opinion articles, participate in interviews with local and international media, and speak at international conferences. All expenses related to the fellowship are paid, including certain media-related travel costs.
The Aspen Institute calls for nominations for the 2019 New Voices Fellowship class. The program is designed to amplify expert voices from Africa and other parts of the developing world in the global development discussion.
Eligibility
Candidates for the fellowships awarded each year must be experts in fields relating to global development, ranging from global health and food security to governance, education and social entrepreneurship. Fellows can be drawn from a variety of development disciplines, ranging from public health and education to poverty alleviation, agriculture, sanitation and community activism.
Fellows must be from a developing country, and ideally work and live in their country of origin or another developing country.
Ideal candidates are expected to have both a record of significant professional achievement and a desire to share their perspectives on global development with a broader international audience.
Eligible groups
Citizens of ANY African or developing country
Participating Institutions
The Aspen Institute, Washington, D.C., USA
Fields of interest
For 2019, 15 Fellows who are development experts in fields such as food security, global health, development economics, health and human rights, and climate change; AND 10 Fellows who are experts working on the frontlines of sexual and reproductive health and rights
Number of awards
The Fellowship is recruiting a total of 25 Fellows for 2019
Sponsorship duration
This is a one year long program. The fellowship is non-resident and not full-time
Scholarship benefits
The Institute pays all expenses for the fellowship, and often provide funds for Fellows to participate in media-related activities and conferences.
The program will help Fellows to sharpen their messages, elevate their stories, focus their media targets, and communicate their insights across a variety of media platforms – illuminating crucial grassroots perspectives for a broad worldwide audience.
Over the course of a year, the Fellowship works to prepare and support Fellows to become recognized thought leaders, helping amplify their insights and ideas rooted in experience on the ground. They will be given training and support to speak at major events; write conversation-starting op-eds and thought pieces for major outlets; and create social media platforms.
The Fellowship is non-resident, but includes travel to training workshops as well as opportunities for travel to select international conferences.
Method of Application
Applications to the Fellowship is by nomination only, and formal nomination for 2019 has begun. You may find a mentor, supervisor or professor to nominate you. We ask that this person know you and your work well. If you pass through the first round, we’ll be in touch with you directly, asking you to submit an application involving two essays and a series of questions. Once the New Voices team has reviewed applications, we will ask a small group of finalists to participate in an interview via Skype or phone. From this group, we will choose the final class of Fellows.
It is important to visit the official website (link to it is below) for complete information on applying to this fellowship.
DEADLINES:
The nomination period will close on October 15, 2018
PLEASE NOTE:
Launched in 2013 with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the New Voices Fellowship is part of Aspen Global Health and Development. The Aspen Institute is headquartered in Washington, D.C., USA, and has campuses in Aspen, Colorado (its original home) and near the shores of the Chesapeake Bay at the Wye River in Maryland. It has partner Aspen Institutes in Berlin, Rome, Madrid, Lyon, Tokyo, New Delhi, Prague and Bucharest, as well as leadership initiatives in the United States and in Africa, India, and Central America.
Application Deadline: 15 October 2018
Open to International Applicants: No (ONLY Africa and developing countries)
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