The RADIUS Fellowship is Metro Vancouver’s premier professional development opportunity for emerging social innovators from across the region.
During the intensive four-month experience Fellows build relationships with their peers, develop personally and professionally, and tap into the broader social innovation and social entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Our hope is that Fellows who engage in the Fellowship program will leave with a deepened capacity to affect mindful, positive change in the system(s) they’re working in, supported by an enhanced network of collaborators.
We are looking for the next generation of untamed social innovators who are early in their changemaking journey, demonstrating a relentless dedication to creating positive, sustainable impact in all they do.
Ideal Fellows are those who want to make a four-month commitment to developing their leadership capacity, building their professional networks, and generously supporting their peers. A curious and collaborative mindset, and ability to socially locate oneself within systems is a prerequisite.
The Fellows program suits recent alumni and young professionals who self-identify as changemakers, social innovators, or social entrepreneurs. It is designed to be complementary to someone studying or working full- or part-time, with predominantly evening sessions.
RADIUS welcomes applications from Fellows who are engaged in any area or sector of work. That said, we do have particular areas of expertise and deeper network connections in the areas of our Labs: Health Promotion, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, Refugee Livelihoods, and the Future of Work. We are also well-oriented to the Future of Education, given our work within SFU.
LOCALLY INVESTED
Intended to identify, profile, support and catalyze emerging social innovators, the Fellowship will help foster the community, support, skills and tools needed to create deep social impact and pursue work with purpose.
RADIUS Fellows will:
Weekly sessions: Tuesdays 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm; February 5 – June 11, 2019
Retreats
Opening Retreat: February 16-17, 2019 (overnight)
Mid-Point Retreat: TBD
Graduation Celebration – June 15, 2019
Commitment: 25 hours per month
Costs: Thanks to the support of our funding partners we are able to offer a sliding scale fee to ensure accessibility (ranging from $500 to $5000 + GST, paid in up to 4 instalments). If you are unable to pay the minimum of $500, please contact the RADIUS team (info below).
APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED.
The 2019 Fellowship will be stewarded by the following team of individuals. This team will also invite in a variety of guests from the local community.
Fellowship Co-Host
Aslam is a South African-Canadian Muslim, husband, brother and son new to unceded Coast Salish lands. He has been engaged in building community, hosting dialogues and reflecting on the links between decolonial practices in Vancouver and South Africa over the last 2 years.
Aslam is driven by a desire to see systems change happening at multiple levels for a more just future. His current work attempts to co-create containers that can hold multiple ideas of what that change could look like. He also enjoys stand-up comedy, hip-hop (in all its essence and real), gymnastics and a good book.
Fellowship Co-Host
Jannika is a proud Vancouverite, born to Swedish folks, and raised on unceded Coast Salish territory. Jannika is a fierce friend, daughter, sister and proud aunt. A lover of hip-hop and an unapologetic coffee elitist, Jannika is most full of joy when dancing.
She is a heart-centered educator, dedicated to cultivating learning spaces for youth to understand their power as leaders through citizenship and leadership education.
She has worked in predominantly within outdoor education and democratic pedagogy. She is currently a student educator at SFU. Jannika is trained in community development, and dialogue process. She is interested in the intersection of power, privilege and systems thinking.
Fellowship Support
Tamara is a white settler woman who has called British Columbia home for much of her life. She is a partner, friend, daughter, sister, auntie, colleague and enthusiastic pumpkin-carver.
Tamara’s background is diverse, but for her, nothing compares to teaching, coaching, and mentoring within educational settings. Through facilitated trainings, games, simulations, and workshops, she helps people to see the interconnectedness of the world and our underlying mental models.
As the Associate Director, Education and Training, Tamara oversees RADIUS’ innovative curriculum and its delivery. She is a certified personal coach and a LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® methods facilitator.
Guest blogger, Ravi Patel, is a member of the 2019 RADIUS Fellowship. In this blog, he examines which of the Fellowship sessions have had the biggest impact on him since
Stephanie Lam (second from the right) is a passionate lifelong learner with an interest in the intersection of public health, health promotion, and medicine. She is finishing her last few semesters
Connect with the RADIUS Fellows – changemakers on the leading edge of some of today’s toughest problems! You may know the amazing 2019 RADIUS Fellows, a group of emerging leaders from
In February, we were thrilled to announce the 2019 RADIUS Fellowship cohort, a group of 17 highly talented emerging leaders from Metro Vancouver. They’ve been selected through a competitive process,
If you have any questions, email the Fellowship Program Team at fellowship@radiussfu.com.
The Fellowship program is made possible by funding from the SFU Innovates, Beedie School of Business, Vancouver Foundation, Shaw, Scotiabank, and the Charles Chang Institute for Entrepreneurship.
