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Cultivating new leaders and generating new ideas are two key strategies The Jamestown Project uses to fulfill our mission to make democracy real. We founded the John - Angela Fellowship Program as our hallmark initiative to feed the generation of new ideas and to amplify the voices of young intellectuals and practitioners to ensure that they influence political debate, public policy, and public conversation and engagement in this country. During the inaugural period of the program, The Jamestown Project identified a group of 13 young fellows, including professors and practitioners, who specialize in different fields related to public policy, criminal law, election law, corporate law, tax, the environment, politics, religion and community activism. These 13 fellows are The Jamestown Project Inaugural Fellows.
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Categories of Fellows
In addition to its Inaugural Fellows, The Jamestown Project has innovatively created three categories of fellows in recognition of our belief that we must invest in varying disciplines and approaches in thought and action to achieve our goals.
- Academic Fellows are accomplished academicians whose work involves sustained attention to the challenges of democracy.
- Policy & Political Fellows are accomplished public policy and political professionals who work in local, state, and federal government or in non-governmental organizations in and around policy issues of concern to Jamestown. Policy Fellows may also be current or former elected officials or senior-level staff to such officials.
- Community Fellows are grassroots community activists and media professionals who are experts at reaching and communicating with ordinary people, and who have a proven track record of initiating the kind of citizen agency and participation that Jamestown seeks to inspire.
How the Program Works
Fellows serve for two years, though their fellowship may be renewed indefinitely for successive two-year terms.
Each Fellow works closely with The Jamestown Project staff to develop an Individual Work Plan (IWP) linking the Fellow’s research and policy interests or media and community expertise to The Jamestown Project’s mission and strategic initiatives. Fellows may receive travel support, administrative assistance, workshop organizing, and assistance with writing, researching and placing scholarly and popular work related to their interests and IWP. Among other things, the IWP will describe a primary work product that the Fellow will deliver at the end of the fellowship term.
Fellows must regularly communicate with all other Jamestown Project Fellows discussing their respective IWPs. Additionally, Fellows attend the John P. Angela Fellows Roundtable, a bi-monthly roundtable discussion of all classes of Jamestown fellows where IWPs and their connection to other classes of work are discussed. Fellows also participate in media training.
Fellows are called upon from time to time to participate in projects, products, workshops or events. The Jamestown Project may also call upon its fellows to assist with any organizational issue that may be served by the particular Fellow’s expertise.
Recruitment and Selection
The Jamestown Project recruits and selects its fellows on the basis of an application describing the proposed primary work product for their IWP, their research and policy interests or media and community interests and how they fit into The Jamestown Project’s interests. Applicants should also include letters of recommendation, copies and of previously published work (if applicable), and a statement describing the broader impacts of their work and its relationship to the discussion of democracy that Jamestown supports. Broader impacts refer to the effects the work has on society, democracy, civic participation, diversity, and other issues related to Jamestown’s core values. Selection will be based upon Jamestown’s assessment of the merit of the applicant’s proposed work product and IWP, and the broader impacts criterion.
Please contact us if you would like to be notified when Jamestown begins its next recruitment season.
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