Climate Justice Fellowship & Academy Program

The NYC Climate Justice Hub Fellowship Program provides an emerging generation of climate justice leaders from across CUNY with the skills, networks, and opportunities they need to advance climate solutions through study, service-learning, professional development, campaign organizing, and engagement with participatory policy-making.

By establishing a leadership vine that links CUNY students to their CUNY peers—as well as community-based organizations in their own neighborhoods—the program creates key access points for student engagement in just transitions and aims to build a cohort of environmental justice-minded student ambassadors across NYC.

This fellowship offers a $10,000 stipend for students who want to learn more about the climate justice landscape in NYC, bring their experiences and knowledge to bear on climate justice issues that impact them, broaden their student networks, meet key leaders in the field and on the ground, and gain professional footing in the climate sector. By participating in the fellowship, students explore community ownership of renewable energy, urban heat mitigation, air quality, safe housing and other climate justice issues. Fellows learn directly from other students across the CUNY system, CUNY faculty, and grassroots climate justice organizations in New York City.

The 2024-2025 inaugural cohort of Climate Justice Fellows kicked off on June 17, 2024 with an intensive 4-day Academy. Through a highly competitive application process, 20 CUNY undergraduate and graduate students were ultimately selected for the year-long Fellowship. Additionally, five outstanding graduate students were selected to participate in the Fellowship program as Interns working directly with NYC-EJA member organizations. Learn more about these exceptional emerging climate justice leaders below!