Leadership Programs

In order to sustain the movement, we need to continuing growing new generations of social justice leaders and infuse their ideas to ensure our work stays on the cutting edge. Our Next Leaders internship program and our various professional Fellowship programs help sharpen young voices and new ideas through training and mentoring, and provide emerging activist-scholars with an intellectual home.

Latest Work

If Ireland Can Get Out of Fossil Fuels, Your Town Can Too

Almost 900 cities, universities, and governments have divested over $6 trillion from the fossil fuel industry. Why not yours?

Drifting Away from Peace

According to a new study, peaceful countries are getting more peaceful while the violent are getting more violent.

New Currencies for a New Economy

To build local power, activists in Bristol are taking aim at the root of all evils: money.

Collective Action is Key to Keeping Labor Strong

As long as workers band together, they can make concrete improvements in their working conditions.

Pashtun Lives Matter

In Pakistan, the police killing of a Pashtun social media star stirred a popular uprising for democracy and demilitarization.

This Hurricane Season, Puerto Ricans Are Imagining a Sustainable Future

Puerto Rican movements are rebuilding their island in a way that not only enhances climate resilience, but also reclaims their political power.

It’s Not Just the U.S. with a Gerrymandering Problem — Look at Pakistan

In one Pakistani province, it took just 544 voters to choose a chief minister. But 80,000 minorities there may not get a single representative.

Abolishing ICE Isn’t Radical — It’s Rational

ICE is supposed to keep Americans safe. Instead, it’s terrorizing refugees, families, and small children.

Emmanuel Macron’s ‘Extreme Centrism’ Is a Threat to Democracy

Hiding behind appeals to “rationalism,” the French leader seeks to “fix” the French economy by cozying up to a tiny, binge-eating wealthy elite.

We Subsidize the Wrong Kind of Agriculture

We should be supporting the small farmers who sell at farmers markets, not the corporate giants that hurt our health and environment.

New Economy Maryland Fellowship Program

New Mexico Fellowship