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Fellowships

Uplifting Indigenous Peoples leading the way and shifting the narrative

Nia Tero offers multiple fellowships to support Indigenous Peoples’ creative endeavors, community leadership, policy-making, and cultural continuity.

Nia Tero views fellowship opportunities as a pathway toward holistic networking and skill-building amongst Indigenous Peoples in their specific fields. The overarching goal across all of our fellowship programs is to amplify and uplift Indigenous voices.

Creative Fellowships

Learn more about our Creative Fellowships and meet the fellows:

Nia Tero offers a suite of Creative Fellowship opportunities for Indigenous makers across disciplines to further their practice, be in community, build skills, and network - all with the goal of uplifting and amplifying Indigenous creatives. This includes all forms of storytelling, inclusive of filmmaking, journalism, advanced media production, and art.

See All Creative Fellowships

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Storytelling

Supporting and amplifying Indigenous storytelling creatives across mediums.

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PNW Art

A fellowship for Indigenous artists across mediums in the Northwest of North America.

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Native Stand

A networking and skills building fellowship for experienced media producers.

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Pasifik Journalism

A support network of diverse voices and journalistic practices.

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Leadership Fellowship

Strengthening emergent leaders

The Leadership Fellows Program was established in 2018 to strengthen emergent leaders from Indigenous territories where Nia Tero partners with Indigenous organizations. The program was designed and modeled specifically after Indigenous teaching methods and concepts of leadership.

Learn about The Leadership Fellowship

policy apprenticeship

Strengthening Indigenous organizations influencing global policies

The Policy Apprenticeship seeks to strengthen Indigenous organizations in influencing global public policies that are applied at the regional, national, and local levels, directly and indirectly impacting their territories.

Learn about The Policy Apprenticeship