Global Scholar Intensive
Washington, D.C. or Online
- Session 1: July 5-16, American University
- Session 2: July 18-30. Georgetown University
- Session 3: July 5-16: Virtual
Global Scholar prepares youth to be visionary leaders and bold changemakers around urgent global challenges. Global Scholar offers a unique curriculum that combines intimate policy seminars with powerful skills training you won’t get anywhere else. This gives Global Scholars the robust knowledge, deep self-awareness, and marketable skills they need to become bold and visionary students, leaders, change makers, and professionals. Join us online or in person to:
- Explore urgent challenges like security, political polarization, climate change, immigration, and human rights through seminars with experts.
- Build skills to be bold and visionary global leaders through our popular Action Lab workshops on systems thinking, dialogue, strategic planning, and more.
- Work with other young leaders to design and launch meaningful projects around timely global challenges.
- Explore global careers, schools, and opportunities through career panels and site visits.
- CONNECT, GET INSPIRED, and HAVE FUN with new friends from around the globe who are equally passionate about building a better world. We are a hands-on, highly-interactive program with lots of creative and social time.
Find out more about the Washington, D.C. and Online sessions.
Global Scholar: Advancing Gender Justice
July 25-28. Virtual
The challenges are both clear and complex. As we tackle our greatest global challenges, we must also address the reality that women and LGBTQIA+ individuals experience the most severe hurdles to education, the workplace, and our economy on the whole. Youth have unique power and opportunity to lead the charge to demand a more just world for us all. Join us for this 4-day virtual workshop to explore framing concepts like human rights, feminism, and gender justice. We’ll then dive into three hallmark issues for the gender justice movement: workplace justice, reproductive rights, and access to education. We’ll cap it all off with a deep dive into building skills for speaking out, from writing for a local paper to meeting with an elected official to organizing a group or event. The experience culminates with each team drafting a project they can launch in their community. Find out more here.
Global Scholar: Power Pack Workshops
1-2 day clinics in July. Virtual.
- Designing a More Just World: From Vision to Reality. July 13-14, 2022. We’ll connect around the youth experience with COVID-19, and its impact on our generation. We then move into artistic visioning around the future of education, jobs and workplaces, our economy, and our environment. The experience culminates with learning how to move big ideas from vision to reality. You’ll leave with concrete tools for visioning and launching a bold idea, and have access to future coaching and small grant funding for your work.
- Connecting Global Youth for Global Change: July 28, 2022. Everything we do rests upon our ability to connect with, and inspire, others. This one-day workshop is an opportunity for youth leaders to build skills for recruiting, inspiring, and mobilizing friends and peers around issues you care about. We’ll review and practice strategies for facilitation, organizing, and team building. You’ll leave with concrete tools to use in your work, and the ability to access future coaching and small grant funding for your work.
- Launch Your Bold Idea for Big Impact. July 21-22, 2022. In this final instalment of the Power Pack, you’ll take your big vision and your ability to inspire others and weave in the hard skills for planning, launching and managing the work. The Launch Workshop focuses on getting ideas off the ground in a way that’s effective, sustainable, and impactful. You’ll leave with concrete tools for strategic planning, evaluation, and fundraising. Participants are eligible to apply for small grant funding and year-round coaching opportunities.
Find out more here. 
Global Scholar: Exploring the Arts and Social Change
August 1-5. NYC (Non-residential).
Explore key challenges facing us today, from climate change to immigration, to racial justice, through an artistic lens. Through seminars with artists and visits to cultural institutions across NYC, you’ll learn first-hand how creative expression has fueled and reflected some of the biggest social movements we see today. We’ll then create content to uplift and inspire, guided by artists working to build a better world. *You do not need to be an artist to join this program. Click here for more info.
