Civic Fellow Application (2024-2025)

Name(Required)

Phone

Please submit the following with your application:

Resume & Cover Letter(Required)

Max. file size: 13 GB.

2-3 professional references(Required)

(Employment references are preferred; please include each person's name, professional title, relationship to you, and phone and email contact information)

Max. file size: 13 GB.

Please answer the questions below, limiting each response to 300 words.

1. What about using Washington, D.C., as a classroom to engage middle school and high school students excites you the most?(Required)

2. Describe two or three specific skills you are hoping to develop by engaging high school and middle school students in conversations about public policy. How do you think Close Up will support you in developing those skills?(Required)

3. Describe a specific experience when you worked with a team to accomplish a goal or overcome a challenge. What was your role and how did members of your team support each other?(Required)

4. On Close Up programs, you will be interacting with students and teachers whose belief systems might be different than your own. Please share a time when you formed a relationship with an individual who had a different identity, life experience, or value than yours. How did you differ from each other? What did you learn from this experience?(Required)

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Application for Close Up Civic Fellowship: 2025-2026

Please submit the following with your application:

Please answer the questions below, limiting each response to 300 words.