Fellows Program

Ethical Expeditions selects twenty-eight Fellows each year who demonstrate high levels of ethics, passion and entrepreneurialism. For eight weeks, Fellows are immersed in a technology rich environment, participate in critical international conservation efforts and receive training to become leaders of the green generation. Fellows work directly with scientists in East Kalimantan to save rainforests and reefs in Borneo or with local communities and conservation NGO’s to protect the biodiversity of Zambia. Since knowledge is an essential ingredient to become an effective leader, Fellows spend a portion of each day reinforcing their experiences with knowledge. Each Fellow has an Amazon Kindle, which serves as a digital library for social and environmental topics. Fellows use laptops for writing blog entries, composing weekly podcasts, working on research papers, conducting experiments, and producing documentary videos. These short, 5-10 minute documentary videos, produced by Fellows in collaboration with local community members, will address important environmental and social issues. Documentaries will be posted on our website, serving as powerful tools for creating awareness about global issues. Each Fellow, as a trained social entrepreneur, will initiate an environmental action project upon return to his/her community. Ethical Expeditions will continue to support each Fellow during and after the initiation of his/her environmental action project.

Ethical Expeditions believes that fund raising is an important component of becoming a successful social or environmental entrepreneur. Each Fellow will be awarded a partial Fellowship and Ethical Expeditions will assist Fellows in finding creative ways to raise necessary funds for the expedition.