Partner with the Next Generation of Global Leaders
Partner with the next generation of global leaders tackling the world's most urgent challenges.
Through immersive fellowships, consulting practicums, internships, and applied capstone projects, the NYU SPS Center for Global Affairs connects mission-driven organizations with exceptional graduate students working at the intersection of energy systems, climate justice, sustainability, and global policy. Our experiential learning programs create meaningful partnerships that deliver real-world impact-advancing organizational priorities while preparing students to lead complex change across sectors.
Global Energy, Climate Justice, and Sustainability Fellows
The Global Energy, Climate Justice, and Sustainability (ECJS) Fellows Program is designed to cultivate a community of next-generation leaders addressing the interconnected challenges of energy systems, climate change, and sustainability.
Each summer, selected NYU graduate student ECJS Fellows work under NYU faculty oversight in immersive, experiential learning placements with organizations across the private sector, environmental nonprofits, multilateral institutions, and government agencies. These partnerships enable Fellows to contribute meaningfully to real-world projects while gaining firsthand exposure to the complexities of climate and energy decision-making.
Over the course of eight weeks, Fellows commit approximately 35 hours per week to a climate justice–related project with a host organization. Initial project concepts are scoped in collaboration with the ECJS Lab, while detailed project design, including deliverables, communications plans, and timelines, is refined jointly by the Fellow and host organization, subject to ECJS Lab approval. This structure ensures projects are both academically rigorous and aligned with organizational needs.
We welcome organizations interested in advancing energy, climate, and sustainability initiatives while mentoring emerging leaders in the field.
Please contact the ECJS Lab at ECJSLab@nyu.edu to learn more and propose a project.
Graduate Consulting Practicums
Consulting practicums place students in real-world situations, where they work under faculty supervision on projects of immediate importance for organizations such as the United Nations, the U.S. State Department, non-governmental organizations, and private firms. These practicums take place over the course of a semester, exist across our eight concentrations, are credit-bearing, and have become a key element in our commitment to bridging classroom learning with practical applications.
Please contact Academic Director Sylvia Maier at sm173@nyu.edu to learn more.
Graduate Internships
Internships are a great opportunity and an important way to gain inside knowledge of professions and organizations within the field of global affairs and acquire access to valuable contacts. Many students in the MSGA and MSGSCC programs engage in one or more internships during the course of their studies, and there is an option to make relevant and substantive internships eligible for course credit to count towards graduate degree program completion.
To qualify for credit, the internship must be approved by the program in advance and involve substantive work and a time commitment typically equivalent to at least one day per week for a full semester, or 98 hours.
Please contact graduate.global.affairs@nyu.edu to learn more.
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Clean Energy Capstone
The NYU SPS Certificate in Clean Energy program is a non-degree program offered in collaboration between the NYU SPS Center for Global Affairs and the Urban Future Lab within the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. This three-course program is designed to help professionals leverage their pre-existing skills within the Clean Energy sector. Students take two full-semester courses - “The Foundations of Clean Energy” and “Energy, Analytics, Modeling, and Climate Tech Finance” - and spend one semester working on an applied project with an industry partner in the “Clean Energy Capstone” course.
Small student teams are partnered with an organization through a “Capstone Matching Night,” during which students and hosts rotate through meetings and then rate each other for the best fit for skills and interests. Projects are initially scoped with the faculty member, and additional project scoping, milestone and deliverable identification, and communications plans are completed between the student group and organization. Projects typically take place over 8 weeks in the fall and spring semesters.
Please contact Michelle D’Amico at mcd231@nyu.edu to learn more and propose a project.
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