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The William C. Friday Fellowship for Human Relations is a two-year Fellowship for emerging leaders in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors who are able to directly affect issues facing our communities. Friday Fellows learn core competencies related to the principles and practices of integrity, intention, and inclusion.
Each class of 15-20 Fellows is deliberately diverse in terms of region, race, political ideology, sexual orientation, profession and more to deepen Fellows’ appreciation for complexity and skill at negotiating boundaries. What further connects Fellows is their commitment to practicing self-critique and discernment of core values, acknowledging and understanding their differences, and finding the intersections between their varied perspectives to affect change.
WLI defines human relations is a way of being in which individuals invest themselves in sharing their experiences and beliefs, challenging their assumptions and perspectives and exploring and learning from the realities of others. Engaging in this kind of sharing, challenging and learning is an expectation of participation in the two-year Fellowship program and in the life-long engagement in the Fellows Action Network. Fellows’ willingness to engage at a deeper, more complicated and sometimes more challenging level is crucial to the success of their work together as a Fellowship group, in the greater Fellows Action Network and their work in all their leadership roles.
One should apply to the program with the expectation of working with fellow Fellows on improving human relations, in the group and in one’s home contexts. For more information on the Fellowship Program including leadership competencies, program components, an explanation of the selection process and more, please download this PDF file:
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