Global Citizen Year Incorporated
Oakland, CA
Global Citizen Year is launching a generation of leaders with the perspectives, skills and networks to solve humanitys most urgent challenges. Each year we recruit talented young people who represent our worlds diversity. Using the formative transition into adulthood, we help them shape their values, identity, and purpose in ways that classroom learning alone cannot. Through our virtual and immersive programs, we combine curriculum, coaching and lived experience to help our students develop the REAL power skills of the 21st century: resilience, empathy, agency, and leadership. We do this in partnership with colleges, companies and communities, with the ultimate goal of building a more just, equitable and sustainable world. In response to the global pandemic, we have suspended our 2021-22 Fellowship, an immersive 8-month long experience, and have focused on delivering the Global Citizen Year Academy, an intensive leadership experience (delivered virtually) that equips determined young p