Global Scholar - AMP Global Youth

Global Scholar equips youth to be visionary leaders and bold changemakers around urgent global challenges.

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Global Scholar is the only transformative summer program that gives youth the deep knowledge, game-changing skills, and powerful network to launch a lifetime of change making.

Join us this summer! We’re offering both virtual and in-person programming, so you can choose what’s best for you.

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Key Program Elements

Explore urgent global challenges through seminars with experts.

We offer unparalleled access to leaders and places where decisions get made. Click to see our speakers.

Build skills to be a bold and visionary global leader.

Global Scholar builds skills that cannot be gained elsewhere, which you can immediately apply to your work and life. Click to see our curriculum.

Launch a career and lifetime of change making.

Our approach gives you the knowledge skills you need to become global citizens and leaders. Click to see our impact.

Join us this summer, however works best for you!

This is a time like no other.

This year has been historic, with the challenges presented by COVID-19 and the incredibly fractious US elections. These issues rest on long-standing and widening structural challenges, from inequality to systemic racism. While this moment can feel overwhelming, it’s absolutely a call to action. It is imperative for you to learn what’s happening, deepen your skills to lead and engage others, and get involved in your community and our world. It’s up to us to pursue, design and demand our shared future.

Global Scholar is here for you.

We know it’s been a tough year. And while none of us know what the summer will look like, the Global Scholar team is committed to supporting your change making however works best for you. This summer, Global Scholars have the option to join an all-virtual program, or a blended virtual-in person program. You can shift your registration between the two experiences at any time this spring, too.

Pay what you can.

We also know this has been an incredibly difficult year for many families financially. As a non-profit organization, our goal is to reach as many youth as possible with this life-changing experience. Our “pay what you can” model suggests a program rate based on your income, with an aggressive commitment to ensuring that as many Scholars as possible are able to participate regardless of their ability to pay for this experience. Find out more on the Application and FAQ pages.

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Our Impact

Our participants increase their understanding of new and continuing global challenges – all while building their confidence as leaders.

of 2019 alumni would recommend Global Scholar to a friend.

Parents surveyed said Global Scholar increased their student’s understanding of global issues.

Youth have participated in AMP Global Youth programs since we were founded by students at Yale after 9/11.

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2021 Program Dates

Session #1

June 27 – July 9

Virtual

OPEN

Session #2

June 27 – July 9

Blended: Virtual and In-Person

OPEN

Session #3

July 11 – July 23

Virtual

OPEN

Session #4

July 11 – July 23

Blended: Virtual and In-Person

OPEN

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After attending Global Scholar, I now feel better prepared to make a positive impact on not only my community but the world. Global Scholar was a really wonderful program that opened my eyes to different ways to make change and think about the systems that make up our world.

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After attending Global Scholar, I now feel better prepared to make a positive impact on not only my community but the world.

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It’s such a great experience. If you are or are not into international affairs, you will go back home with such confidence, with all the knowledge you had acquired through this intense program. It will build your confidence in so many ways, such as public speaking, being inclusive, teamwork, support and so much!

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Global Scholar was a really wonderful program that opened my eyes to different ways to make change and think about the systems that make up our world.