Mentoring and investing in early-career professionals who will champion biodiversity throughout their careers.
The Future Leaders Initiative represents the Lovejoy Center's commitment to nurturing the next generation of biodiversity champions. We identify and invest in promising individuals who bring fresh perspectives to conservation challenges, providing mentorship, funding, and professional development opportunities that create diverse career pathways in research, policy, field conservation, and science communication. Our approach helps emerging professionals develop the cross-disciplinary skills needed to integrate biodiversity considerations into decision-making across sectors.
The Lovejoy Fellowship
The Lovejoy Fellowship aims to identify, support, and develop emerging leaders who will champion biodiversity throughout their careers across multiple focus areas including research, conservation practice, policy development, and science communication.
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Lovejoy-Carson Scholars
The Lovejoy Center sponsors graduate students in a year-long fellowship through the University of Arizona Carson Scholars Program. This competitive program trains scholars in the art of public communication. Scholarships support students whose research is related to the environment and/or its intersection with social justice and helps scholars explore their motivations and develop their stories for specialist and non-specialist audiences. The Lovejoy-Carson Scholar receives a $5,000 scholarship and joins a network of over 100 alumni.