We recruit underrepresented college students and recent graduates through mentors, professors, advisors, and student leaders on more than 900 campuses. We look for potential, learning ability, work ethic, and a passion for progressive causes––but not necessarily past political experience.

We offer our fellows skill-specific training in data, professional writing, and organizing, and career readiness training that shares best practices for managing up, asking for feedback, building workplace relationships, networking, and navigating questions of purpose and belonging at work.

Our fellows meet with a coach weekly for their first few months on the job. During their 1:1 coaching sessions, they have the opportunity to talk through challenges and opportunities at work, role-play potentially challenging conversations, and bounce ideas around with someone who’s been in their shoes.

We offer all of our fellows’ managers optional, small-group training on creating cultures of belonging, delivering feedback, developing work-plans, fostering authentic relationships, engaging with identities at work, and building equitable structures for growth.

We place our fellows in paid internships and entry-level jobs with our hiring partners—social change groups that share a commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. We’ve worked with 82 organizations to build diverse and effective teams, including the SEIU, Run for Something, and the Working Families Party.

We stick with our fellows long-term with career support, connections to future employers, and a community of more than 300 alumni. We source job applications for our fellows, edit their resumes and cover letters, prepare for interviews, and negotiate job offers––whatever it takes to help them launch lasting social change careers.