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Summer Fellowship

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Applications for the 2025 Summer Fellowship Program are now closed. 


Eligibility

The summer fellowship is open to traditional and non-traditional students. As of May 2025, students must be one of the following to be eligible: 

  • Currently enrolled in community college or an undergraduate program, or graduated within the last two years (only May 2023 graduates and later are eligible)
  • Currently enrolled in a Master's program or graduated within the last two years (only May 2023 graduates and later are eligible)
  • Doctoral students in their first or second year (as of May 2025)
  • International students are also eligible, but are responsible for securing their own U.S. work permit/visa by mid-April 2025

Application Process

The 2025 Submittable application portal is now closed.

COVER LETTER. Maximum 2 pages. Please address the following questions:

1. How have your lived experiences and personal goals informed your interest in working with the Othering & Belonging Institute as a summer fellow?

2. Which OBI program or work area are you most interested in working with and why? Please select only two programs or work areas from the list below.

3. What relevant academic or professional experience and skills would you bring to your work with the specific program(s) you're interested in?

RESUME. Maximum 2 pages

WRITING SAMPLE. Maximum 5 double-spaced pages of which you are the sole author (multi-authored works are unacceptable). This may be an excerpt of a longer piece; if so, please provide a one-sentence description of the original purpose of the piece (for example, that it is two chapters of a thesis that comprises twelve chapters in all, or what course, project, and/or assignment it was written for). Please also include the piece's full title and the submission date. A title page, table of contents, bibliography, or works cited page is unnecessary and does not count toward the 5-page limit.

Applications submitted after the deadline or without a cover letter, resume, and writing sample will not be considered.

Please visit the FAQs page for additional information. If your question isn’t answered in the FAQs, contact the Othering & Belonging Summer Fellowship Committee at summerfellowshipcommittee@berkeley.edu.

 

Application Materials

COVER LETTER: maximum 2 pages. Please address the following questions.

  1.  How do your lived experiences and personal goals inform your interest in working with the Othering & Belonging Institute as a summer fellow?
  2.  Which O&B Institute program(s) are you most interested in working with and why?
  3.  What relevant academic or professional experience and skills would you bring to your work with the specific program(s) you're most interested in?

RESUME: maximum 2 pages.

WRITING SAMPLE: maximum 5 pages, double spaced, of which you are the sole author. This may be an excerpt of a longer piece/paper. Please provide a 1-2 sentence description of the original purpose of the piece (e.g. the course, project, and/or assignment it was written for, title, and date of submission/publication).  A list of references or works cited may be attached as a separate page, which does not count toward the five-page limit.

Please visit the FAQs page for additional information. If your question isn’t answered in the FAQs, contact the Othering & Belonging Summer Fellowship Committee at summerfellowshipcommittee@berkeley.edu.