Nelson Mandela Leadership Fellowship

• MUST be a full-time undergraduate student at CCNY for the duration of the fellowship
• MUST have a strong passion/interest in leadership and social change
• MUST commit to a REQUIRED Summer Internship.
• Can be from ANY SCHOOL/MAJOR at CCNY.
• NO GPA or citizenship requirement

Fellows will receive a stipend of $1,000 for the duration of the program.

Richard Stengel

Richard Stengel is the former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs in the Obama administration. Prior to serving in government, Stengel was the Editor of TIME for seven years. He was also the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center. In the 1990s, he collaborated with Nelson Mandela on the South African’s bestselling autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom. The many hours of taped interviews from that time were the basis of Stengel’s 10-part award-winning audiobook, Mandela: The Lost Tapes, from Audible. Stengel is the author of a number of books, the most recent of which is Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation. He is a political analyst for MSNBC and a Senior Advisor at WestExec Advisors.

Under his leadership, TIME won the National Magazine award for Magazine of the Year in 2012, the only time it has ever done so. In that same year, Stengel received an Emmy award for his work as executive producer of TIME’s documentary, Beyond 9/11: Portraits of Resilience. In addition to Information Wars, Stengel is also the author of January Sun: One Day, Three Lives, a South African Town, You’re Too Kind: A Brief History of Flattery, The Constitution: The Essential User’s Guide, and Mandela’s Way, a NYT-bestselling memoir of his time working with the South African leader. Stengel is a graduate of Princeton University where he played on the 1975 NIT championship basketball team. He then studied English and history at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.

Brad Brockman

Brad Brockman is an organizer and political educator. Originally from South Africa, Brad’s formative political involvement was as a researcher, organizer and leader of Equal Education, a grassroots movement of students, youth and parents campaigning against systemic inequality in the South African schooling system. He was trained and worked as a political educator at the Tshisimani Center for Activist Education in Cape Town, where he taught history and political theory to youth, community and worker activists, and built relationships between activists in South Africa and elsewhere, including in the United States. Brad was also previously an Activist Fellow of the Bertha Foundation and Social Change Initiative, completing an independent research project on student and youth activist movements globally. He holds a BA (Hons.) in History from the University of Cape Town and a MA in African Studies from Yale University.