Hoover Institution (Stanford, CA)— A civics fellowship program launched last year at Hoover’s Center for Revitalizing American Institutions (RAI) is growing in size and scope in its second year.
The National Civics Fellowship is now a two-year-long program, and its four initial participants are being joined by three new ones.
It continues to bring together exemplary leaders from K–12 education, postsecondary institutions, civil society, and the research community. The fellows are producing policy recommendations, practitioner resources, and public scholarship aimed at equipping both students and adults for effective self-governance.
Fellows showcase their work at in-person gatherings and contribute written pieces to reach educators, policymakers, and civic leaders across America. Each fellow is building a capstone project during the appointment. These projects include opportunities to present their work and solicit feedback from each other along with Hoover fellows and Stanford faculty, as well as external thought leaders in the civics ecosystem.
“RAI’s National Civics Fellows program has evolved from a simple idea—let’s bring together some civics superstars from several fields—into a robust and lively septet of eager experts who work, separately and together, to revive civic learning in America while deepening their own knowledge,” said Senior Fellow Chester E. Finn Jr., who leads RAI’s Civics and American Citizenship Working Group and co-leads the fellowship with Thomas Schnaubelt, executive director of Hoover’s Center on Revitalizing American Institutions.
“Though they come from different specialties,” Finn added, “their synergy crackled from the start and is enduring as they share their experience with the Hoover/Stanford community and contribute to the wider civics world, while readying future accomplishments with the benefit of the University's many experts and other resources.”
Joining existing National Civics Fellows Trygve Throntveit, Sarah Jencks, Stephen Morris, and Joseph Kahne are Mia Charity, Joshua Dunn, and Janet Tran.
Charity is president of the Close Up Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to improving civic education in the K–12 sector.
Dunn serves as professor and executive director of the Institute of American Civics at the Howard H. Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs at the University of Tennessee.
Tran is the director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum.
For more information, please contact Jeffrey Marschner, assistant director of media and government relations, at jmarsch@stanford.edu or 202-760-3200.
Learn more about the Working Group on Civics and American Citizenship here.
