South Asia Fellowship Program

The Resilience Youth Network Fellowship program is a global five-week summer Fellowship for high school and early college students dedicated to Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) education and leadership development. 

10-16 Fellows are selected for the program per year, engaging in Zoom sessions with topic experts from development, engineering, policy, the private sector, academia, and philanthropy. In addition to attending these series of lectures, Fellows complete capstone projects for publication on our site.

Learn More

Look through our Application Guide (PDF) and Parental Consent Form (PDF) for further details that pertain to our Fellowship Program at RYN. If you have any other questions, please contact us at [email protected]

Requirements

See below for requirements to apply and join RYN’s Fellowship Program.

Age

Our target Fellows are Juniors and Seniors in High School or Freshmen and Sophomores in College

Time Commitment

2-3 hours per week (includes 1.5-hour Fellowship sessions on 5 Sundays)

Mindset

Desire to make positive change in your community, passion for sustainability, and eagerness to learn about resilience as an essential component of sustainability 

The RYN Fellowship curriculum was developed with input and assistance from the following people:

Resilience Action Fund

Aris Papadopoulos

UNICEF and RYN

Ben Norrito

Jacobs Engineering Group

David Savarese, AICP

University of Miami and RYN

Lamis Amer

Climate Resilience Consulting

Joyce Coffee

Community Wildfire Planning Center

Molly Mowry

Climate Resilience Consulting

T. Jonathan Lee

RESULTS

Yolanda Gordon

DEPO NEPAL and RYN

Deepak Marahatta

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