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The Fellows
If you’re a proven doer and believe you know where the world should aim next you’re a Mira Fellow. We’re looking for mid-career applicants with a proven track record, an undying need to sink their teeth deep into a specific problem, and the openness to reframe their assumptions to find a new solution.
Selected Mira Fellows will work individually and gather several times during the Fellowship to share their research and build on each other’s ideas. It’s a deep dive mixed with a little creative structure and a small group of excellent people.
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
Applicants Should Be
Observant
Flexible yet determined enough to push through rough patches
Enjoy working collaboratively
Seek other perspectives
Deeply knowledgeable in your field
Established professional - You’ve done something. You want to do something more.
Application
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We’ll open up again next spring. Join our mailing list to stay up to date on the fellowship. If you have any questions don’t hesitate to drop us a line info@mirafellowship.org.
Materials
1. Video statement (2 min or less)
Tell us a simple story about something that happened to you recently. A trip to the store. A vacation. Meeting a new friend. The story should be two minutes or less. We’re interested in how you tell the story more than how “good” the story is. This doesn’t have to be high production value. Using your phone is fine. Just make sure you’re not in a noisy place. Please upload this to youtube and include the link in your application (please make sure your video is set to public or unlisted and we have the correct link).
2. Idea Description, Impact Goals & Timeline (500 words or less)
You have an idea that’s been knocking around in your head that will make the world a better place. What is it? How will it change the world? What are your impact goals? And what’s a rough timeline for what you will complete during the fellowship?
3. Idea Impact Visual (250 words or less)
Make a visual representation of how the world will be different after your idea is implemented. A quick drawing, a photograph, anything that might communicate the result of your vision.
4. Resource Analysis (250 words or less)
What resources would be the most valuable for the fellowship to provide for you? What resources will you bring to support your work? What are some of the key alternate perspectives you would like to get?
5. Work experience (Resume )
Outline your work history with a classic resume.
6. Why You? (500 words or less)
Why does this work matter to you and why are you uniquely qualified to solve this problem?
7. Why Now? (500 words or less)
Every idea that changed the course of history had a person or group of people who believed it had to happen now. This deep sense of conviction carried them through the toughest moments in their work and attracted others to help them make their dream a reality. Why do YOU need to be doing this work and why does it need to begin NOW — to happen this year? Please be audacious and bold.
If you have any questions don’t hesitate to contact us at info@mirafellowship.org.
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