by Osman Moradel | Sep 21, 2023
Receiving the Frank Karel Fellowship in Public Interest Communications has been an affirming experience that this is the career I am meant to do. On a personal note, I have grown more as a person in the past month then in the past six months because of the many...
by Nancy Barrera | Sep 21, 2023
“So what does progress, change, look like?” In the middle of reaching down to take a bite of my sandwich, I stopped and looked up blankly at my friend not knowing how to respond. Within academia, I learned about inspiring social movements that transformed the world we...
by Marisol Rivera-Esquivias | Sep 21, 2023
A voice is my answer to: what is public interest communications? A voice that echos and embraces the struggle of many. A voice I know too well. Perhaps because mine was interrupted — illegal alien— as I begged for the cancellation of my Papis...
by Katie-Grace Ibarra | Sep 21, 2023
As I sit down to write this blog post about my experience with the Frank Karel Fellowship and my work at the Aspen Institute, I feel compelled to be honest with my audience. This fellowship came as a golden opportunity during a challenging phase of my life, and it was...
by Darrel Creary | Sep 21, 2023
So here’s the deal… I still don’t know how I managed to make it here. Being chosen to become a Karel Fellow has been richly overwhelming in more ways than I could’ve imagined, and at each stage, I’ve invalidated everything I’ve accomplished. Imposter syndrome...
by Alexis Marin | Sep 21, 2023
It hadn’t hit me until I arrived in DC and met the rest of my cohort that I was completely unprepared for my internship. I had no background in communications and it didn’t bother me until I heard the people in my cohort talk about their PR majors and jobs as social...
