Application Questions

1. ELP aims to create a community of individuals from throughout the environmental field by actively recruiting emerging leaders from academia, government, non-profits, and the private sector. ELP promotes diversity of race and ethnicity, gender identity, sector, professional background, values and traditions, and environmental issue expertise. Describe the unique perspectives, background, or experience you can offer to the ELP community. How do you hope to benefit from its diversity and what would you like to contribute to it? (700 words maximum)

 

2. Describe the evolution of your professional work and your contributions to the practice or thinking about current environmental issues on the national, state, or local level. Feel free to discuss your personal background and how your experiences have influenced your perspectives on and strategies for environmental, social, and economic change. Please be as specific as possible when discussing activities that demonstrate your public leadership ability or potential. (500 words maximum)

 

3. What are your long-term goals for your life and career? What strategic environmental and/or social change do you want to lead and which constituencies do you aim to reach and how? Please mention any specific work and constituencies in the New England region and your goals for effecting change on a regional level. (400 words maximum)

 

4. What facets of ELP most appeal to you and why? Specifically, how do you hope ELP will help you accomplish your professional goals for environmental progress? Feel free to describe potential collaborations you might pursue with others in New England and how they could help you in your work. (400 words maximum)

Please submit your answers to fellowship@elpnet.org. Include your name and the Region you are applying to. Good Luck!