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High Road NYC

Launched Summer 2023

High Road NYC experiences focus on climate, unemployment, migrant labor, neuro-diversity, primary and secondary education, and training for adults facing barriers to joining the workforce.

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Students and community partners in NYC

The NYC High Road Summer 2023 pilot program launched in the summer of 2023 with 12 students working with nine NYC organizations. The students spent eight weeks in NYC learning practical civic engagement and leadership methods at their internship sites and weekly cohort workshops focused on critical reflection, professional networking, and peer-to-peer collaboration at ILR's NYC office.

High Road NYC Partners

The High Road New York City Program partners with various NYC partner organizations whose missions focus on civic engagement, engaged leadership, evidence-based policy, and strategic development. Learn about a few NYC community partners below.

New York State Assembly Member Alex Bores

High Road NYC Fellows are immersed in public policy and community activism interning with New York State Assembly member ILR alum Alex Bores ‘13.
New York State Assembly Member Alex Bores

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network

Fellows at Hand in Hand are embedded within a dynamic team of organizers and community education practitioners to advance domestic worker rights and improve domestic employer practices.
Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network

OPEN DOORS NYC

High Road Fellows with OPEN DOORS NYC work in an arts-and-disability justice non-profit organization and learn about long-term-care advocacy and reform.
OPEN DOORS NYC

High Road NYC Stories

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Community Voices in Environmental Justice

Buffalo High Road Fellow Laura Wang reflects on her fellowship experience alongside high road principles of sustainability and environmental justice.
Sunset by the Buffalo Launch Club
Community Voices in Environmental Justice

Inaugural NYC High Road Fellowship Begins With Lofty Ambitions

The original High Road Fellowship has been a longstanding program operating out of Buffalo. Although the lofty ambitions of the NYC pilot program may feel like flying the plane while building it, the exceptional people behind the experiment have pulled it together. 
NYC skyline on a cloudy evening
Inaugural NYC High Road Fellowship Begins With Lofty Ambitions

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Buffalo High Road Fellow Timo Isreb (ILR '26) uses poetry to reflect on the idea and practice of democracy.
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