Applications are now open for the DUSP Freedom Summer Fellowship! This is an opportunity for graduate students to work on the frontlines of transformative change across U.S. cities and states, advancing climate, infrastructure, and economic development initiatives. The Fellowship was inspired by the mobilization of more than a thousand college students in the Summer of 1964 to register African American voters in Mississippi, and was named in honor of Freedom Summer.
Developed by Professors Phil Thompson and Liz Reynolds through their course “Bills and Billions,” the program bridges academic learning with urgent, on-the-ground challenges facing communities today.
🔗 Read more: https://news.mit.edu/2026/urban-planning-students-engage-communities-through-freedom-summer-fellowship-0403
📅 Current students: Apply below by April 7 to join this summer’s cohort: https://pkgcenter.smapply.io/prog/freedom_summer_fellowship_2026/
