About: Global Citizen Year

Global Citizen Year is launching a generation of leaders with the perspectives, skills, and networks to solve humanity’s most urgent challenges. Each year the organization recruits talented young people who represent the world’s diversity. Using the formative transition into adulthood, they help these young people shape their values, identity, and purpose in ways that classroom learning alone cannot. Through a virtual Academy and immersive Fellowship, Global Citizen Year combines curriculum, coaching, and lived experience to help students develop the power skills of the 21st century: resilience, empathy, agency, and leadership. Ultimately, in partnership with colleges, companies, and communities, their goal is to unleash a critical mass of leaders to build a more just, equitable and sustai