WE CREATE

CIVIC INNOVATORS

WORLD-CHANGERS

TRAILBLAZERS

We empower future leaders with the training, funding, and community they need to become civic innovators.

Civic Innovator

Noun

Community focused leaders who build novel solutions to well defined societal problems.

How we do it:

Civics Unplugged has built an ecosystem dedicated to training, funding, and connecting young people who will change the world.

Fellowship

A free, 3-month leadership program that dives deep into new technologies, systems, and ideas that can be used to build the future of society.

Community

After graduation, Fellows are invited to join the CU Alumni Community. There, Alumni get access to the people, opportunities and funding that bring innovation to life.

Labs

We incubate new programs, content, and projects that accelerate our mission.

Become A Fellow

LEARN ABOUT THE CU FELLOWSHIP

Our Fellows

Civics Unplugged looks for exceptional young people across the country.

500+

Fellows per Cohort

2500+

Alumni

Our Alumni

We look for exceptional young people from across the globe. Fellows go on to attend top universities, secure competitive internships, and obtain funding from CU to launch projects that impact hundreds of thousands globally.

74%

Young women

70%

POC

ALL 50 STATES

& 74 COUNTRIES

Meet Our Community

See our stories.

Joleen Wong

"Civics Unplugged has broadened my perspective on events, people, and life in general. I live in a rather small bubble, and so connecting with fellows across the world reminded me to take into account multiple situations and views before acting."

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Fall '22

Aaron Piando

"CU has prompted me to look deep into my desires and skills to future cast and identify what careers I can pursue, what lifestyle I want to achieve, and what my definition of success looks like. With this, CU empowered me and made me feel unstoppable."

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Spring '21

Arpita Singh

"At Civics Unplugged, I met amazing people, many of whom I'm lucky enough to call very close friends. I've developed such close relationships with my peers that I honestly cannot imagine my life without their support."

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Fall '22

Dariel Cruz-Rodriguez

"Civics Unplugged is a second home for me. I often find myself most comfortable in the CU Community, where I've met lifelong friends and mentors. The Fellowship also gave me long lasting opportunities that I would not have been able to receive at my public high school with limited resources."

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Fall '20

Zoë Jenkins

"The Fellowship enabled me to launch a career in social-change. While our education system teaches the youth to wait their turn, Civics Unplugged accelerates the projects, potential, and power of our generation to build a brighter future."

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Fall '20

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PROJECT SPOTLIGHT

Students Stand Up

Civics and Democracy

Lillian Hertel

17

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Minneapolis, Minnesota

SSU aims to provide youth from around the world with the tools and resources necessary to begin and succeed in work surrounding activism and political advocacy.

The Greater Good Initiative

Civics and Democracy

Tarina Ahuja

20

,

Cambridge, MA

The Greater Good Initiative is a youth-led policy think-tank with the mission of promoting youth engagement and mobilization in the policymaking process.

GOVLEARN

Civics and Democracy

Luke Gianella

17

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Marina del Ray, California

GOVLEARN Education, Inc. is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization committed to providing easily accessible & nonpartisan government & politics education to elementary and middle school students.

A2M2

Maternal Health

Rushank Goyal

17

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Bhopal, India

A2M2, (Attack Avoidable Maternal Mortality/Morbidity) is an international teen-led nonprofit that aims to tackle the unfathomable loss of lives and burden of disease caused by mortality and morbidity during pregnancy and childbirth.

DICCE

DEI

Zoë Jenkins

18

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Lexington, KY

DICCE, which stands for diversity, inclusion, cultural competency, and equity, is an initiative founded out of something missing in our education system: diversity, inclusion, anti-racism, and accurate history curriculum.