Insightful Leadership
The Citizen Leaders Fellowship—a partnership with the Contemplative Sciences Center, the International Studies Office, UVA Athletics, and Student Affairs—offers students a year-long leadership opportunity to gain skills needed to flourish during their time at UVA and after graduation.
OVERVIEW
The Citizen Leaders Fellowship—a partnership with the Contemplative Sciences Center, the International Studies Office, UVA Athletics, and Student Affairs—offers students a year-long leadership opportunity to gain skills needed to flourish during their time at UVA and after graduation.
Eligible UVA students identify a specific, pressing challenge to the well-being or flourishing of their peers or larger communities and spend their fellowship year designing and implementing programs to overcome those challenges with evidence-based tools. The fellowship is open to current UVA undergraduate and graduate students who are in their second year of studies or above. Students must have an interest in developing a social impact project for one or more of the following student communities: international students, student athletes, and/or transfer students.
Fellows emerge with their own style of citizen leadership, enabling them to lead engaged and values-driven lives, while making it possible for others to do the same.
The Fellowship highlights the concept of flourishing to help students envision the forms of engagement they would like to see on Grounds to enhance the well-being of their student community, or some subset within it. Through a series of reflective activities, direct mentorship, and academic engagement, Fellows learn a combination of contemplative and ethnographic methods, dispositions, and practices to create change within themselves and the communities they care about.
2025-2026 Fellowship Application link: https://forms.office.com/r/wQqBrN05CQ
Deadline: Wednesday, September 3 at 11:59 PM ET
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