Hey all,

Mozilla Advocacy is looking for tech fellows to work on policy. This may be of interest to some folks on this list.

The host orgs this year are ACLU, Amnesty, Free Press, OTI, and PK, but we are talking with Mozilla about potential collaboration.

Best, Yana

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Hannah Kane hannah@mozillafoundation.org Date: Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:07 AM Subject: Re: Mozilla + Wikimedia Fellows and Community To: Yana Welinder ywelinder@wikimedia.org Cc: Dave Steer daves@mozillafoundation.org, Stephen LaPorte < slaporte@wikimedia.org>, Chris Riley criley@mozilla.com

Hi Yana and Stephen,

Nice to meet you. I'm attaching the one-pager as a PDF, in case that's useful, and have included the content below my signature as well. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks so much! Hannah -- Hannah Kane Program Manager, Engagement Mozilla Foundation

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*Mozilla Advocacy introduces the Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellows Program*

The Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellows http://advocacy.mozilla.org program is an initiative designed to find emerging leaders who have a passion for Internet policy and advocacy. Each year, we will select a group of developers, technologists, hackers and data crunchers to spend 10 months working as a Fellow embedded in our host organizations.

The Washington Post recently called the program a way to give “*nonprofits and the government an injection of tech talent” with a “broader aim [of developing] a pipeline, one that tells civic-minded engineers there’s an alternative to Silicon Valley*.”

*The 2015 Fellowship: 10 months of paid project work to protect the Web*

- *Protecting a free and open Internet:* Make real impact on projects creating a healthier Web through technology development, community organizing, educational programs and more. - *Informing policy discussions at leading non-profits: *Become embedded in the Internet policy discussions at our host organizations, serving as advisors and ambassadors for an open Web. - *A diversity of talent: *Bring together emerging leaders who have a track record of success in technology, organizing and education.

*Our 2015 Host Organizations:*

- The American Civil Liberties Union https://www.aclu.org/ - Amnesty International http://amnesty.org/ - Free Press http://www.freepress.net/ - Open Technology Institute http://www.newamerica.org/oti/ - Public Knowledge https://www.publicknowledge.org/

*Who Should Apply*

The Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellows program is for people with a passion for protecting a free and open Web. This includes engineers and technologists, activists and community organizers, and educators and mentors. We are an inclusive program and we seek to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.

Fellows will receive a slate of stipends and benefits to ensure the experience is a transformative one. The standard fellowship offers a stipend of $60,000 over 10 months plus supplements for travel, housing, child care, health insurance, moving expenses, and helps pay for research/equipment and books.

*Apply to be a Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellow at mozilla.org/advocacy http://mozilla.org/advocacy.*

The deadline to apply is December 31, 2014.