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Humanity in Action celebrated its 25th anniversary of Fellowship programs in 2024. To honor this significant milestone, we invited our alumni to a special virtual gathering, designed to help them reconnect with their Fellowship cohort.

If Humanity in Action Fellows or Senior Fellows, this first-ever network-wide virtual community gathering will be an opportunity to hang out with your fellow Fellows again and learn where they are at these days. We kicked this reunion off with a community-wide gathering where everyone had a chance to meet with Senior Fellows across all years, followed by smaller spaces with Senior Fellows from your own program or program country. 

When:

• September 10, 2024 from 12:00-1:30pm ET / 6:00-7:30pm CET (Humanity in Action Fellowship alumni) and

• September 26, 2024 from 12:00-1:30pm ET / 6:00-7:30pm CET (Professional Fellowship alumni, Diplomacy & Diversity Fellowship alumni, Landecker Democracy Fellowship alumni)

What to Expect:

• Community-focused Updates, Announcements, and Opportunities: Learn what we’ve been working on for the Senior Fellows community.

• Community Networking Time: Meet with Senior Fellows from all years and discover the latest developments at Humanity in Action.

• Individual Cohort Reconnection Time: Reconnect with your fellow cohort members and catch up on each other’s journeys.

Learn more here.

In June and July 2024, Humanity in Action invited its Fellows and Senior Fellows to contribute critical perspectives, commentary, and insights for the UN Summit of the Future in September 2024.

With this Call for Contributions, we sought to bring forward new ideas, approaches, and perspectives on how the Summit could address and advance Humanity in Action’s core issues of social justice, equity, human rights, and inclusive democracy. What outcomes do our Fellows and Senior Fellows hope to see from the Summit that would lead to transformative change? Authors were encouraged to consider the following questions in their submissions:

• How can global solidarity find expression in international governance, and what tangible forms might that take? What are short term and long term milestones to work towards?

• Pledging a new beginning requires new approaches. How can we approach these challenges in innovative ways? What is currently missing in our global discourses and solutions around key issues of the day?

• In a time when confidence in our international systems is waning, how can forums like the Summit and multilateral collaboration build trust and inclusivity by amplifying new voices in these critical conversations?

These questions were intended to provoke innovative thinking and encourage participants to propose actionable ideas that contribute to reshaping international governance, fostering global solidarity, and addressing pressing global challenges around democracy and human rights.

Submissions were accepted through 7 July 2024. Four prizes of $500 were awarded in August 2024, with a Senior Fellows Roundtable on 30 October 2024 with the competition winners. Learn more here.

What are these Dinner Dialogues?

• A space to connect with other Senior Fellows in your city – or across the network online – over a meal in community with each other

• An opportunity to hold intentional, meaningful, and timely conversations around issues of concern and relevance to the Humanity in Action community

• A way to learn with and from one another and support each other through times of both challenge and joy

Learn more here.