Summer Academy
The Roosevelt Institute | Summer Academy aims to bring those committed to progressive change together to enable them with the tools, experiences, and community to be powerful actors in the political process.
Policy matters - from City Hall to the community center, from the White House to the social innovation hub. How people, institutions, ideas, andresources come together to solve our greatest challenges ultimately determines the direction of our communities and country.
Now more than ever, there is a need for young people capable of tackling complex problems and systems, invested in building stronger communities, and inspired by the power of ideas in action.The Roosevelt Institute | Summer Academy aims to bring those committed to progressive change together to enable them with the tools, experiences, and community to be powerful actors in the political process.
Submit your application for summer 2013 today here! Program runs June 7, 2013 to August 11, 2013.
Questions about the program? Contact Operations Fellow Etana Jacobi.
Sigourney shares her experiences as a Summer Academy Fellow in Washington D.C. Learn how the Roosevelt Campus Network can help you create solutions to the critical issues you encounter everyday.
Read about the experience two Summer Academy alumni had on The Nation Magazine.
Background | Three Cities, Three Experiences | Meet our Fellows
Background
Over the course of nine weeks, Summer Academy Fellows are placed full-time with a partner organization, including city governments, community-based organizations, advocacy organizations, and think tanks. Concurrently, Fellows participant in a rigorous curriculum composed of workshops, team-based challenges, field visits, and a speaker series that develop key skills necessary to effectively engagement with policy change.
Now in its sixth year, the Roosevelt Institute | Campus Network currently runs the Summer Academy in Chicago, New York City, and Washington, DC. We place ten fellows in each city, and support them with a stipend ranging from $1,500 to $3,000, based on need.*
THREE CITIES, THREE EXPERIENCES
SUMMER ACADEMY in CHICAGO: In recent years, Chicago has become a leader in green energy use. The Summer Academy in Chicago focuses on green initiatives in communities. Placed in city departments and nonprofits across the city, Fellows have the unique opportunity to engage with policy in practice in one of America’s largest and most vibrant cities. From turning O’Hare Airport into a sustainable, green space, to assisting on the conversion of the city’s taxi fleet into hybrid and electric vehicles, Fellows can experience and contributed to the city’s ongoing green transformation.
SUMMER ACADEMY in NEW YORK CITY: It can only happen in New York City. Fellows join the Roosevelt Institute in the city of lights, a home of 9 million that serves as a microcosm of many of the most entrenched economic and social challenges facing the nation. Fellows will be placed across the city, from government agencies to community-based nonprofits, where they’ll focus on issues related to equal justice, economic development, and education. Here, Fellows will have the unique opportunity to see where creative ideas meet action, and how communities inform smart, sound solutions.
SUMMER ACADEMY in WASHINGTON DC: There’s no place like it. Fellows are placed with leading progressive policy organizations, including the AFL-CIO, Campaign for America’s Future, and National Academy for Social Insurance, where they’ll see and engage first hand where policy meets politics on the national level.
Meet Our 2011 Fellows
Click here to meet our 2011 Summer Academy fellows.
See photos from the 2011 summer here.
Meet Our 2012 Fellows
Click here to meet our 2012 Summer Academy fellows.
See photos from the 2012 summer here.
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