Fellowships
Since 2018, New Voices has offered year-long, paid fellowships for Jewish college students, in partnership with other Jewish media organizations. Below, you can find more information about our partner organizations, our fellows, and our program.
About The Jewish Media Fellowship
The New Voices Jewish Media Fellowship is an academic-yearlong fellowship for Jewish writers, journalists, and mediamakers ages 18-22 or otherwise enrolled in an undergraduate program. This year (2023-24), there are three fellowship slots with our partnered organizations: Ayin Press, Judaism Unbound, and Jewfolk, Inc.
Each organization hosts one student fellow from September 2023 through May 2024. Fellows will have the opportunity to work closely with the production team at their placement for a unique Jewish media experience, while receiving direct mentorship from New Voices Editor in Chief during monthly cohort meetings, speakers, workshops, and more.
In addition to 4-5 hours of weekly work at their placement, fellows each get to focus on pitching, writing, and publishing articles on topics of their choosing for publication in New Voices, making for a total of 6-8 hours of work per week, with some weeks requiring less.
New Voices fellows form a tight-knit community as progressive Jewish mediamakers, deepening their Jewish identities together, supporting one another personally and professionally, and getting to know each other through monthly virtual meetings and workshops with their cohort. Workshops can be tailored to the fellows’ interests, but may include topics such as pitching, feature writing, interviewing, and multimedia skills. Fellows will be expected to commit an average of 8 hours a week to the program, with some weeks requiring less time based on partnered organizational workflow and New Voices scheduling.
Our 2023-24 Partner Organizations
Judaism Unbound: Judaism Unbound is a project that catalyzes and supports grassroots efforts by 'disaffected but hopeful' American Jews to re-imagine and re-design Jewish life in America for the 21st Century. We prioritize voices marginalized in many spaces of institutional Jewish life, as we believe that such voices are precisely those necessary to pioneer paths toward vibrant Judaisms of the future. This fellowship will include some amount of the following -- the mix to be determined through a combination of our organizational needs and the fellow's skills: contributions to our podcast, live holiday programs, and/or other initiatives -- and a behind-the-scenes role through contributions to our website and social media accounts.
Ayin Press: Ayin Press is an artist-run publishing platform and production studio rooted in Jewish culture and emanating outward. We celebrate artists and thinkers at the margins and explore the growing edges of collective consciousness through a diverse range of mediums and genres. We are committed to amplifying a polyphony of voices from within and beyond the Jewish world.
The New Voices-Ayin Press fellow will work closely with various members of the Ayin team to support this vision, learning about and contributing to several realms of our publishing work—with a special focus on communications, publicity, and research.
TC Jewfolk: Jewfolk, Inc., the parent organization of TC Jewfolk and the recently announced Cincy Jewfolk, is excited to partner with New Voices in hosting a fellow for the 2022-23 year. Jewfolk is celebrating its 13th year, and we’ve come a long way in a short time. The mission at Jewfolk, Inc., is simple: To serve as an ecosystem to connect, engage, and inspire local Jews, no matter their background, marital status, or if they consider themselves more of a “Jew-ish” kind of Jew.
In the Twin Cities, that means running TC Jewfolk, an award-winning news site, which focuses on in-depth coverage of Minnesota Jewry. TC Jewfolk has covered a Minneapolis synagogue that sheltered asylum seekers in secret; antisemitism from past to present; the impact of community trips to the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C.; and much, much more. Jewfolk aims to bring that same scope and quality of reporting to the Cincinnati Jewish community.
Our 2023-2024 Jewish Media Fellows
Judaism Unbound Fellow: Ashton Macklin | Hailing from Houston, Texas, Ashton Macklin is a first-year student at Carleton College studying Linguistics and Sociology, with interest in pursuing the Rabbinate post-graduate. In his free time, he loves to work hands-on with anything that he finds interesting, from beekeeping to bagpiping to teaching at museums. He binds his pursuit of knowledge and love of life to his passion for Judaism.
TC Jewfolk Fellow: Victoria Dozer (she/her) is a senior at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, studying astronomy and physics, but is originally from Southern California. In her free time, she loves to write, rock climb, and spend time at the beach! She is excited to continue her work within Jewish media with both New Voices and Jewfolk!
Ayin Press Fellow: Tyler Kliem (he/him/his) is a current senior at the University of Pennsylvania studying comparative literature and design, where he threshes the boundaries between image, word, and aesthetics. A foremost Yiddishist and Jewish intellectual, Tyler has worked throughout college with the Yiddish Book Center and the Jewish Museum in New York on various creative and research projects related to labor rights, the Diaspora, Yiddish translation, and visual culture.