Swearer Center for Public Service
Social Innovation Fellowship
Focusing on local partnerships and social impacts through the lens of innovation, this two-year developmental program offers students the opportunity to explore modes of social innovation and the technical and conceptual skills and knowledge required for starting successful ventures or making transformational changes within existing organizations.
Structure
The Social Innovation Fellowship is a two-year developmental program that places the community at the center and offers students coaching and hands-on social innovation experience. Fellows also benefit from inclusion in the Swearer Center ecosystem of faculty, advisors, and students.
Eligibility/Timeline
The Social Innovation Fellowship is a two-year program and thus is open to first-year and second-year undergraduate students.
Apply
The Social Innovation Fellowship application opens every Spring in UFunds.
Contact
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Joshua Rodriguez
Associate Director, Co-Curricular Learning
Through Swearer's Social Innovation Fellowship, Brown student Coco Huang '26 leads the Humanitarian Reporting Lab (HRL), a nonprofit examining journalism's impact on global humanitarian crises.
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Paris Dior ‘25, a Social Innovation Fellow at the Swearer Center, is also pursuing the Nelson Center’s Entrepreneurship Certificate while concentrating in International and Public Affairs.
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