The year-long fellowship provides a cohort of twenty thought leaders, all of whom are underrepresented in the public sphere (including women), with extraordinary support, leadership skills, and knowledge to ensure their ideas shape not only their fields, but also the great public conversations of our age.
The goal of this fellowship is to increase the public impact of University's top thought leaders who are women and/or underrepresented minorities, to ensure that their ideas help shape important contemporary conversations. Led by the OpEd Project, fellows explore how credibility works, how ideas spread, when and why minds change, and how ideas play out over time and space. The fellowship also provides the high-level support and media connections to become influential on a large scale. Fellows completing the one-year fellowship will join a national network of peers, allowing for knowledge-sharing and innovation across institutions.
The fellowship has a track record of great results, generating personal, professional, and public outcomes with far-reaching implications. The University’s first cohort of fellows were highly successful and have published, so far, over 40 op-eds, including in the Washington Post, US News & World Report, Scientific American, Paris Review, Boston Review, Ms. Magazine, Chicago Tribune, The Hill, Slate, and Psychology Today. Many of these successes also led to expansive impact in the public sphere, driving interview requests, expert citations, invitations to speak at conferences, congressional funds and more.
