Civic Science Fellow McKenna Parnes investigates how collective action can ease youth mental health struggles When McKenna Parnes asked 12 teenagers to give her a tour of their social…

Civic Science Fellow Mulika Musyimi helps San Francisco communities document their own climate stories Deep beneath San Francisco’s streets, 16 high school students follow Mulika Musyimi through dark tunnels…

Lomax Boyd’s path to the Civic Science Fellowship started with his research on brain organoids   When Lomax Boyd published his Ph.D. research on how human brains evolved to…

The 2026–28 Civic Science Fellows cohort will launch in September 2026. As 2026–28 host partners open applications for Fellows, we will share them here and in our monthly newsletter (see below…

How Civic Science Fellow Kuranda Morgan cultivates space to question, reflect, and connect On a November morning in Berkeley, 40 people gathered in a room scattered with flowers. Handmade…

Civic Science Fellow Rebecca Sausville used neglected survey data to show how graduate education can be more equitable As a newly minted classics Ph.D., Rebecca Sausville was teaching at…

How Julia Minson helps people disagree better Ballroom dancing may seem an unlikely setting for lessons in psychology, but as a graduate student studying disagreement, Julia Minson drew on…

Angélica Valdés Valderrama helps community leaders transform local challenges into sustainable solutions When power or water fails at her home in Puerto Rico—a frustratingly common occurrence—Angélica Valdés Valderrama knows exactly where…

How Shannon Dosemagen is working toward systems change When the BP oil spill devastated the Gulf Coast in 2010, Shannon Dosemagen had a front-row seat to the disaster as…

Civic Science Fellow Lisa Maillard works to help funders support more effective community-engaged research When Lisa Maillard and her colleagues walked into a municipal building in Florida, ready to…