Octavia E. Butler Fellowship Program 2025 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: May 16, 2025

Applications are open for the Octavia E. Butler Fellowship Program 2025. This fellowship is known as within the honor of science fiction author Octavia E. Butler, one of many progenitors of afro-futurism. EcoHealth Strategies is a type of afro-futurism in that they imagine their work won’t solely safeguard the longer term, however it’s going to assist form it.Theye are impressed by the previous, future and current – combining storytelling, historical past, justice, expertise and a lot extra.

This fellowship is an OPPORTUNITY for an undergraduate or graduate scholar to achieve fingers-on expertise in local weather coverage, vitality justice, and neighborhood-primarily based analysis. Fellows may even obtain networking alternatives with business professionals, stakeholders and neighborhood leaders. The fellow will assist ongoing initiatives associated to program design and analysis, information assortment and visualization, local weather resiliency assessments, public engagement, stakeholder coordination and strategic planning for clear vitality initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Assist with information assortment, value/profit evaluation for local weather and vitality initiatives
• Support stakeholder engagement efforts (surveys, focus teams, interviews)
• Conduct coverage and program analysis on clear vitality, workforce improvement, and local weather resilience measures
• Develop studies, displays, and communications supplies
• Attend and assist neighborhood conferences, workshops, and business occasions
• Perform common venture coordination and administrative duties as wanted
• Use ArcGIS and complementary information visualization instruments to map geographies and localities

Benefits

• Fellows will obtain $7,500 for Summer Placement.

Eligibility

• They are searching for present Graduate Students or latest Masters and PhD scholar graduates in public coverage or administration, environmental science, city planning, sustainability, or associated fields
• Proficient in quantitative information instruments and analytical strategies
• Passionate about partaking numerous communities on local weather fairness, clear vitality, and environmental justice
• Strong researcher, author, and communicator
• Self-starter, element-oriented and comfy working in a quick-paced, collaborative and mission-pushed surroundings
• Strong inter-private abilities and comfy partaking with multi-sector stakeholders
• Hybrid Role: Fellow should be primarily based in Chicago with the power to attend in-particular person occasions

Application

Applicants might want to submit

• Resume
• Portfolio (a knowledge portfolio, previous analysis paper or information-pushed report associated to local weather, vitality, or sustainability)
• Response to the next query (250 phrases max): What does local weather motion imply to you, and what key abilities do you imagine are important to attaining it?

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For extra data, go to Octavia E. Butler Fellowship.