Global Citizen Year

Global Citizen Year is launching a generation of leaders with the perspectives, skills and networks to solve humanity’s most urgent challenges. Each year we recruit talented young people who represent our world’s diversity. Using the formative transition into adulthood, we help them shape their values, identity, and purpose in ways that classroom learning alone cannot. Through our virtual Academy and immersive Fellowship, we combine curriculum, coaching and lived experience to help our students develop the REAL power skills of the 21st century: Resilience, Empathy, Agency, and Leadership. Ultimately, in partnership with colleges, companies and communities, we are unleashing a critical mass to build a more just, equitable and sustainable world.

We are proud to be named the #1 place to work in the U.S. by Outside Magazine in 2021.

As a team, we are dreamers and doers, activists and entrepreneurs, students and teachers—with a shared commitment to building a better world. 

Our Core Values:

Practice CURIOSITY before judgment.

Connect to build EMPATHY.

Advance EQUITY and opportunity for all.

Align our lives with our CONVICTIONS.

Have COURAGE to do the hard things.