Serious about changing into a Scholar Voices Fellow? Apply right here.

Chalkbeat launched its Scholar Voices Fellowship two years in the past to listen to from teenagers — in their very own phrases — in regards to the points shaping their lives and schooling. We’re thrilled to supply this paid essay-writing fellowship to public college college students in New York Metropolis and Newark, New Jersey through the 2023-24 educational yr.

I encourage candidates to learn the revealed items by our earlier fellows. That’s the easiest way to know what Chalkbeat fellows do. 

This previous yr, for instance, Karen opened up about studying English as a brand new language, and Ashally advised us what it’s wish to really feel her native Spanish slipping away. Dashawn recounted struggling throughout COVID lockdowns after which making a course targeted on teen psychological well being, and Jasmine defined the painful and valuable methods the pandemic affected her highschool class. Enoch mentioned his early and ongoing expertise with code-switching, and Vanessa advised us what it’s actually wish to attend her well-known New York Metropolis highschool. 

You possibly can learn extra scholar work right here. 

This coming college yr, we are going to choose a complete of six fellows, 4 from New York Metropolis and two from Newark. We’re providing the fellowship within the fall and once more within the spring. Candidates can point out which semester they like. The fellowship will probably be digital, with alternatives to satisfy in particular person with workers members of our New York Metropolis and Newark bureaus. 

Fellows will obtain a $1,000 stipend. 

Fellowship necessities:

• You’re a rising eleventh or twelfth grader in New York Metropolis or Newark, New Jersey, and attend a public college or a constitution college. 
• You have an interest in journalism and storytelling.
• You possibly can handle your time, meet deadlines, and are prepared and in a position to commit 1-2 hours every week to this extracurricular fellowship for about three months.
• You will have compelling private tales to share and are prepared and in a position to share them on Chalkbeat beneath your byline. (First Individual doesn’t publish nameless or pseudonymous items.)
• You’re collaborative and longing for suggestions in your writing. 

Scholar Voices fellows will:

• Pitch, write, edit, and publish private essays.
• Brainstorm, define, and workshop your items alongside Chalkbeat journalists and writing coaches. 
• Attend Zoom periods with journalism educators and Chalkbeat workers in regards to the craft of reporting and writing. Additionally, you will have entry to a library of recorded journalism classes from reporters and editors.
• Enhance your storytelling capacity throughout codecs and platforms.

Functions are due Friday, September 1, 2023, at 11:59 p.m. ET.

In case you have questions not answered right here, please e mail gbirkner@chalkbeat.org.

About Chalkbeat:

Chalkbeat is the nonprofit information group dedicated to overlaying one in all America’s most vital tales: the trouble to enhance colleges for all kids, particularly those that have traditionally lacked entry to high quality schooling. We’re mission-driven journalists who imagine that an unbiased native press is significant to making sure that schooling improves. At present in eight places and rising, we search to offer deep native protection of schooling coverage and observe that informs choices and actions, main to raised colleges. Learn extra about our mission and values. We’re dedicated to a various newsroom. Learn our antiracism assertion.