Oak Fellowship, Oak Institute for Human Rights, Colby College
The Oak Fellowship annually offers an opportunity for one prominent human rights activist to take leave from frontline work and spend the fall semester in residence at Colby. The Oak Institute’s 2025-2026 theme is Environment and Living Rights.
The Oak Institute is looking for a living rights activist who addresses environmental protection by challenging Western values, reimagining economic structures, questioning a utilitarian relation to the ecosystem, and fighting to respect nature’s rights, among other approaches.
We welcome practitioners who work to ensure that any use of nature is renewable and who challenge damaging processes such as industrial pollution, the meat and fashion industries, environmental racism, unsustainable agriculture, extractivism, overfishing, and other factors contributing to environmental destruction. We are looking for an activist who works to protect human and non-human life from the threat of environmental degradation.
Website
Host Country
USA
Duration
One semester
Applicants
The Oak Human Rights Fellowship is designed for one human rights professional who is doing on-the-ground work at some level of personal risk.
Additional eligibility criteria can be found here.
Contact
How To Apply:
Please contact us at oakhr@colby.edu or 207-859-5195 for any questions concerning the application or nomination process.