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PUBLIC VOICES FELLOWSHIP

Now Accepting Applications

NBCDI is accepting applications for the Public Voices Fellowship, in partnership with The OpEd Project. The year-long Fellowship provides a cohort of twenty thought leaders from. Wide range of backgrounds with extraordinary support, leadership skills and knowledge to ensure their ideas shape not only their fields, but also the greater public conversations of our age.

The application deadline is JUL 25th. Please use the button below to apply.

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ABOUT

The Public Voices Fellowship with NBCDI is part of The OpEd Project’s highly successful initiative to change who writes history. The globally-acclaimed curriculum and experience explores leadership, power, and action for the greater good. Using time-tested methods of transformational learning, fellows explore how credibility works, how ideas spread, when and why minds change, and how ideas play out over time and space. Selected fellows will join intense, results-oriented activities around their own knowledge and impact. They will receive high-level support from journalist coaches and have access to resources and support to become influential on a large scale. Other participating institutions include Yale, Dartmouth, Northwestern, The Ford Foundation, and many more. Fellows join a national network of peers, allowing for knowledge-sharing and innovation across institutions.

IMPACT

The Public Voices Fellowship has a track record of stunning results, generating personal, professional, and public outcomes with far-reaching implications. Fellows have published op-eds in high-impact venues and gone on to publish history-changing books. They have briefed Congress, advised the White House, launched new research studies and centers, and sparked national and international debate. They have written books, collaborated on research grants, and driven policy change. The resulting impact of their ideas entering public consciousness has been expansive and is hard to overstate.

DETAILS

MANDATORY FELLOWSHIP DATES

Four Fellowship Convening’s:

  1. Launch of the Fellowship Year with the First Convening: Oct 23 @ 9am-4pm ET and Oct 24 @ 9am-12:30pm ET, at the NBCDI Annual Conference in Atlanta, GA. Immediately followed by the NBCDI Fellows’ Seminar at 12:30-4pm on Oct 24.
  2. Second Convening: Jan 8 and 9, 2026 @ 12-3:30pm ET, via zoom
  3. Third Convening: March 19 and 20, 2026 @ 12-3:30pm ET, via zoom
  4. Fourth Convening: June 4 and 5, 2026 @ 12-3:30pm ET, via zoom

Fellows are matched with senior journalist and columnists who provide dedicated one-on-one coaching throughout the year. In addition, fellows have opportunities to join monthly virtual events with public thinkers and influencers, and receive weekly customized email support and news alerts. Upon completion of the fellowship, they have access to a powerful network of peers, as well as to The OpEd Project’s national network of high-level journalist mentors

PROGRAM DETAILS:

  • Approximately 20 fellows
  • One-year fellowship (9 months dedicated coaching + 3 months follow on support)
  • Four discovery-based convenings designed to catalyze knowledge and outcomes
  • Dedicated coaching and editing from top journalists
  • Access to weekly journalist office hours and regular expert talks with media leaders

The Public Voices Fellowship is an initiative launched by The OpEd Project in partnership with leading universities, foundations, and mission-aligned organizations and funders across the globe. Additional information may be found at the following sites:

More info about Public Voices Fellowship:
https://www.theopedproject.org/public-voices-fellowship/

 

More info about The OpEd Project:
http://www.theopedproject.org/

 

What’s it like? Watch a short video: Public Voices Fellowship at Emory University:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjBWD_K2FHE

PUBLIC VOICES FELLOWSHIP