The Reducetarian Fellowship

OVERVIEW

The Reducetarian Fellowship is designed to foster a more diverse, sustainable, and impactful movement by empowering bright, passionate, and ambitious young advocates and innovators to transform our food system.

This exciting new program is for exceptional New York City and Washington DC-area undergraduate and master’s students who are eager to create a more sustainable, healthy, and compassionate world. The one-year experience is designed to equip and encourage students to pursue a career focused on combating industrial animal agriculture. Each fellow receives a $7,500 stipend to support their participation in the program, and one-on-one mentorship from Fellowship staff throughout the year.

The first component of the Fellowship runs from September to May, and is concurrent with the fellows’ regular academic studies. Our curriculum offers students the opportunity to explore foundational ideas and cutting-edge strategies through seminars with scholars, activists, and other leaders in the field. It also allows students to develop their professional skills and network through workshops with specialized experts.

The second component of the Fellowship runs from June to August, when Fellows will put their learning to direct use in a 10-week summer residency at a partner organization. The residency is an immersive learning experience that will give Fellows first-hand experience with some of the most impactful work in food system reform and innovation.

A central goal of this program is to increase the representation of marginalized groups in the mainstream movement to reform the food system. We thus encourage BIPOC students, LGBTQIA+ students, students with disabilities, students who have been impacted by the criminal legal system, and low-income students to apply, as well as other students with reduced access to resources and opportunities for any reason.

 GET IN TOUCH

If you are unsure whether the Fellowship would be a good match for your career goals, we strongly encourage you to reach out to our Fellowship Director Sofia Fogel by email at sofia@reducetarian.org. Sofia will be more than happy to answer questions, share further details, and help you decide whether to submit an application. (Conversations of this nature will not affect your chances of acceptance to the program in either direction.)

We are committed to ensuring that our application process is as accessible as possible. If you believe you may require accommodations of any kind in order to apply for the Fellowship, please reach out to Sofia at sofia@reducetarian.org.