The Carl Wilkens Fellowship empowers emerging citizen leaders in communities across the United States with the skills and relationships necessary to influence and shape U.S. policies on genocide.
38 Carl Wilkens Fellows have now been inducted into the program. They come from diverse professional backgrounds and skills sets. They are filmmakers, educators, IT specialists, practicing nurses, graduate students, public relations professionals, organizers around prominent social justice issues, fine artists, and therapists. The 2010 class spans the continental states; three members are genocide or mass atrocities survivors. Fellows are selected through a competitive application process.
Fellows are trained in community outreach, coalition building, policy action, media outreach and fundraising. They educate and engage their communities, building political will to end conflicts in Burma, Sudan and Congo, and for genocide prevention.
The Carl Wilkens Fellowship is building a national activist leader network that addresses the root cause of ongoing genocide—the lack of political will. We aim to have one Fellow in every congressional district by 2020.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
