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FELLOWSHIP
SELECTION

OUR WORK  |  FELLOWSHIP  |  SELECTION

SELECTION CRITERIA

Pahara Fellows are exceptional, values-driven education leaders with demonstrated commitment to transforming public education, and to serving students, families, and communities throughout the United States.

We aim to select leaders who:

  • Have a track record of leadership in nonprofit schools or organizations successfully impacting students and families not served well by our public education system; 

  • Are creative and entrepreneurial, and who think beyond traditional boundaries to forge new pathways personally and in collaboration with others; 

  • Are on a journey to understand the effects of their and lived experiences, including aspects of race and privilege, and how their identity shapes their leadership; 

  • Hold a breadth of experience and maturity gained from overcoming hardship;

  • Are between the ages of 25 and 60, and feel reflection on their leadership and vision for the future is timely;

  • Don’t have it all figured out and are oriented towards listening to and learning from others with different perspectives, and can do so with humility, vulnerability, curiosity, and empathy; and,

  • Are eager to build relationships and bridge gaps across political lines of difference

2023 ANNUAL SELECTION CYCLE TIMELINE 
*Note that the selection cycle timeline is subject to change throughout the year. Please check our website regularly for timeline updates. 

MARCH - APRIL 2023

Annual Call for Nominations

MARCH - MAY 2023

Open Call for Applications

MAY 2023

Candidate consideration begins

NOVEMBER 2023

Candidate consideration completed

DECEMBER 2023

Status updates shared

END OF 2023
- EARLY 2024

Selected cohorts announced

MAY & SEPTEMBER 2024

Cohort seminars launch

Our selection process is designed to help us get beyond surface-level information about individuals and their organizations and really get to know candidates and their outstanding work in service to students and families. We take a relational approach involving the following key phases:

STEP 1

NOMINATION

APPLICATION

OR

  • Leaders can apply with or without a nomination

  • Nominations of exceptional leaders accepted year-round

STEP 2

CANDIDATE CONSIDERATION

  • 90-minute Zoom interview + Referencing

STEP 3

COHORT CURATION

  • Inclusive of the breadth of our humanity across multiple domains of difference​

STEP 4

SELECTION

  • Candidates notified of their status in December 

  • Candidates not selected may choose to opt-in for future consideration

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