Congratulations Fall 2024 Cohort! Applications open for Spring 2025.
Congratulations to the incredible mentee cohort chosen to participate in this program for Fall 2024. Scroll down to learn more.
Applications for another cohort of this program beginning in Spring 2025 are open on a rolling bases. Are you a grad student or similar stage emerging leader interested in a career in agriculture and conservation? Are you ready to explore your purpose and possible career paths in a supportive environment that includes one-on-one mentorship and professional trainings? Do you want to foster a sense of belonging and community with an inspiring circle of peers? Apply now for the Spring 2025 cohort! We would be delighted to have you as a part of our exceptional community of mentees!
If you know someone who sounds like a good fit for this program, please send them this website and encourage them to apply!
To see fall 2024 mentees scroll down and for mentee profiles from a previous cohort of this program, click here.
The Equipping Next Gen Ag and Conservation Professionals Mentorship Program
As we journey to nourish people and maintain ecosystems for generations to come, connecting innovative and indigenous/ancestral/traditional knowledge in the agricultural and conservation landscape is critical. The challenges we are facing are an extreme threat to the Earth and its entities that sustain our way of life and being. The current and next generation of agricultural and conservation professionals and enthusiasts will need to envision, embrace, and effectuate landscape-scale transformation to truly set us on the path of agricultural sustainability. This challenge requires us to fully and authentically leverage a broad range of ideas, practices, and ways of making meaning to build resilience in both ecological and human systems. Human diversity and diverse agricultural landscapes are not independent of one another: We must embrace them BOTH simultaneously.
This 2024-2025 mentorship program will support two cohorts of learners from all walks of life connecting with incredible mentors, farmers, and trainers representing diverse ag communities across the Upper Midwest.