The Emerging Fellowship is a year-long, policy writing-focused, fellowship experience designed for students in the last one to two years of their undergraduate degree program. This rigorous and advanced Fellowship offers progressive-minded students the opportunity to dive deeper into policy research and writing, receive mentorship from Network Alumni and Roosevelt Institute staff, be in community with other passionate policy wonks, and ground themselves in Roosevelt’s vision for a just economy and multiracial democracy. Fellowship alumni become members of our national Network, with continued opportunities for mentorship and programming for young professionals.
Emerging Fellows will be trained across key skill areas necessary for them to understand the progressive policy landscape, will engage with local advocates and policy experts, and will produce a short policy brief at the end of the fellowship experience. Students in the program will also have opportunities to explore various graduate school pathways through Network alumni panels and mentor connections. All Emerging Fellows will receive a $3,000 stipend, disbursed in three installments, over the course of their program experience.
Students applying should be aware that the time commitment necessary to be successful in this program is similar to that of a senior seminar or independent study course. With the support of Network staff, students will be expected to engage in orientation trainings and cohort discussions, design their own research plan and timeline, develop the framework of their policy argument, and produce a final comprehensive document discussing a policy recommendation.
All applicants should be passionate about exploring policy solutions in the following issue areas:
- Corporate power (e.g., antitrust, anti-monopoly, or combatting corporate concentration);
- Worker power (e.g., worker justice, labor protections, or higher education);
- Climate justice (e.g., environment protections, green jobs, or environmental racism); or
- Race & democracy (e.g., gerrymandering, closing the racial wealth gap, or reparative economic policy).
At this time, Roosevelt Network programs do not support students interested in:
- K-12 Education
- Healthcare
- Global Politics/International Relations
- Immigration
- Child Welfare
- Financial literacy