Applications are open for the Wilson Center Latin American Program 2019/2020 Addressing Environmental Challenges in the Americas. Latin America and the Caribbean face major environmental challenges. For example, air, water, and noise pollution affect approximately 80 percent of urban populations. Further, Ocean plastics degrade the physical beauty of coastal areas, threatening livelihoods and marine life.

What is the path to a resilient and sustainable future for the region? What concrete measures can protect ecosystems and biodiversity? reduce the consumption of finite resources, promote energy, infrastructure, and transportation efficiency, as well as promote resilience and adaptation to climate change?

Moreover, the Vidanta Foundation and Wilson Center’s Latin American Program are pleased to issue a call for applications. Further, to conduct research about and propose concrete solutions to the range of environmental threats faced by countries in Latin America and the Caribbeans. Citizens of Latin America and the Caribbean who reside in the region are encouraged to focus their applications. Which is on innovative projects and public policies that will address one or more of the region’s urgent environmental challenges.

Benefit

• The residential fellowship will take place at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.
• The center is located in the heart of Washington, D.C., and includes conference rooms, a reference library. Also,  a dining room. The building is a smoke-free environment.
• Likewise, the Wilson Center Library provides loan privileges with the Library of Congress and access to digital resources, its book and journal collections, and to university and special libraries in the area, and other research facilities.
• The fellowship includes round-trip airfare in economy class.

Eligibility

• Applicants must be citizens of any Latin American or Caribbean country and currently, reside in the region.
• Applicants must hold a valid passport and be eligible to obtain a J-1 visa.
• They welcome applications from outstanding women and men from a wide variety of backgrounds. Also, including business, civil society, academia, journalism, and other professions.
• Former government officials are eligible but current officials are not.
• Command of spoken English is necessary since the center encourages the exchange of ideas among its fellows and with the broader Washington policy community.
• Applicants must have an undergraduate or graduate degree and a minimum of five years of relevant work experience. The fellowship is not open to current students or to those working on a Masters-level or a doctoral dissertation.