The Landecker Democracy Fellowship
The Humanity in Action journey begins with a year-long Fellowship. For Senior Fellows, membership to the community lasts a lifetime.
In several cities across Europe, Fellows gather to study past, present, and future challenges to local communities.
Fellowship Program Dates in 2021
Amsterdam, Berlin, Sarajevo, and Warsaw: June 1 – 23, 2021 (virtual)
Copenhagen: August 9 – 29, 2021 (in person)
The Humanity in Action Fellowship explores issues of democracy, pluralism, human rights, and social justice. Each program is tailored to its location. Fellows are challenged to understand their host city’s unique history of injustice, its present struggles to encompass groups with minoritized cultures and identities, and the future of its democratic values.
For three weeks, Fellows engage with local experts and community members, visit museums and historical sites, and engage in constant discourse with one another and program leaders.
Each program has a cohort of roughly 22 college students and recent graduates. Fellows come from many different backgrounds—academia, the arts, activism—but share common values. Humanity in Action Fellows are collaborative, passionate and open people, willing to examine and challenge their personal preconceptions and biases.
For the next eleven months, Fellows work on their Action Project: an independent venture focused on promoting democratic values in their own communities.
Action Project Implementation 2021/22
Action Projects are as diverse as Humanity in Action Fellows. Fellows apply their new knowledge and perspectives to the communities they impact—in whatever format they find meaningful. Past Action projects have been documentaries, arts festivals, and new organizations that serve a public good.
Planning for the Action Project begins during the study portion of the Fellowship, through workshops and collaborative discussion. An Action Project is a part-time commitment—Fellows return to their work or studies at the end of the first month of the Fellowship.
After their year of study and action, Fellows—now alumni—are invited to join the Humanity in Action Senior Fellow network.
The Senior Fellow network is the heart of the Humanity in Action community. Our 2,500 Senior Fellows work around the world, across many different industries. You will find Humanity in Action Senior Fellows working in government, journalism, medicine, law, education, the arts, business, and grassroots action.
Senior Fellows stay engaged with Humanity in Action long after their Fellowship programs through the conferences, workshops, grants, seminars, and study trips we offer every year.
They also support one another. Friendships made during the Fellowship last for years and many Senior Fellows find professional opportunities through the community.
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