Congratulations to Catherine Corr, associate professor of Special Education, who has been awarded an OpEd Project Public Voices Fellowship. The program is part of a national initiative to help faculty amplify their expertise in ways that can contribute to public conversations about pressing issues.
"I am honored and excited to be a part of the Public Voices Fellowship," said Corr. "Everyday people do not access the academic journals I publish in. So I am looking forward to learning how to communicate and make my research more accessible to the world. I am also looking forward to learning from the other fellows and I am hopeful this experience will spur future collaborations," she said.
According to the OpEd Project's website:
The Public Voices Fellowship program is intended for individuals and institutions committed to bigger, long-term results and enduring social change. The goal of this program is to transform a cadre of exceptional thinkers (with emphasis on underrepresented voices, including women) into public intellectuals whose knowledge and influence transcends industries and institutions, to shape the important public conversations of our day.
Participants convene in person for day-long seminar events throughout the fellowship and are matched with Journalist Mentors, who work with them for the duration of the fellowship to encourage, coach, edit and support participants in achieving concrete results (op-eds and much more). Fellows receive weekly customized email prompts, and join monthly calls with media thought leaders. By partnering with us in this way, institutions typically see value in these ways: (1) increased visibility/prestige; (2) enhanced satisfaction and retention of talent, especially underrepresented (including female) talent; (3) more innovation, driven by intentional cross-pollination across colleagues and disciplines. Institutions strengthen their internal talent pool, increase their institution’s public presence through the voices of their own leadership and community, and help change the demographics of voice in the world.
