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Since 2017, Zolberg-IRC Fellows have worked at the International Rescue Committee on a variety of teams including policy, innovation, research, health, governance, and emergency response. Zolberg-IRC Fellows come to their fellowships from a wide array of academic backgrounds–from designers at Parsons School of Design to graduate students at the Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment–as well as many departments throughout The New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts.
If you are a matriculated New School graduate student or Ph.D. candidate with an interest in mobility, migration, crisis response, or humanitarian aid and international development, consider applying for one of the fellowships below.
- AI & Ethics Signpost Fellow
- Behavioral Insights, Innovation and Design Fellow
- Child Protection Research & Measurement Fellow
- Client Responsiveness Analysis Fellow
- Climate & Health Toolkit Fellow
- Conflict & Humanitarian Fellow, Global Policy & Solutions
- Costing Analysis Learning Design Fellow
- Crisis Analysis Fellow
- Data Visualization & Design Fellow
- ERICC Research & Policy Fellow
- PlayMatters Research Fellow
- Private Sector Engagement in Warsaw Fellow
- Protection Pathways Climate Fellow, Global Policy & Solutions
- Strategic Projects Fellow
Since the International Rescue Committee (IRC) was first founded at the request of Albert Einstein in 1933, their global team of more than 17,000 staff have helped people upended by conflict and crisis to survive, recover, and regain control of their lives. Today they work in more than 50 countries and over 25 U.S. and European cities, from conflict-affected countries like Yemen to resettlement communities like Boise, Idaho.
The IRC focuses their support in five areas: ensuring safety from harm, improving health, increasing access to education, improving economic wellbeing, and ensuring people have the power to influence decisions that affect their lives. In all their programming, they address the unique needs of women and girls (who represent the majority of those displaced)—and the barriers to progress everywhere they work.