When it comes to helping care for our planet, it’s all hands on deck.

Leaders from all disciplines are needed to tackle the immense challenge of protecting the Earth for current and future generations.

Our TESI Environmental Leaders Fellowship brings together students from diverse majors and backgrounds and provides them with the knowledge, skills, confidence, and network to advocate for the planet as they take on leadership roles in their respective careers. During their time with us, Fellows attend seminars featuring environmental experts, receive mentoring from professionals in environmental fields, network with peers, and take part in a multi-day field experience focused on environmental challenges across Florida.

Spring 2025 Fellowship Application

Learn more about our pilot program, funded by the Henry David Thoreau Foundation, in the video below!

Learn more about our Fellows

Benefits of the Program

Fellows leave the program with the following:

• Spring break field experience
• Enhanced understanding of environmental issues
• A broad skill set in different approaches to tackling environmental issues
• Professional and leadership skills focused on research, education, and civic engagement.
• A network of colleagues they can connect to as they emerge as leaders in their respective fields
• $2,500 stipend

Fellowship Organizers

Sadie Mills

Program Coordinator and Educator, UF Thompson Earth Systems Institute
Email: smills@floridamuseum.ufl.edu

Lexi Bolger

Graduate Student Coordinator, ELF Cohort II
Email: abolger@ufl.edu

ELF Blog

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Interested in supporting this program?

This program has been made possible by the generous support of private foundations as well as campus and community partners. If you are interested in supporting the next cohort of our TESI Environmental Leaders Fellowship, please email Sadie Mills at smills@floridamuseum.ufl.edu.