Update on 2021-2022 Global Citizen Year Fellowship
UPDATE: March 2021 After careful consideration, we announce that we will not operate our Fellowship in the 2021-2022 academic year. Again this month, we analyzed the data to assess the viability of running our global Fellowship beginning in January 2022. Despite promising signs in some parts of the world and increasing access to vaccines in […]
PODCAST INTERVIEW: Abby Falik on Global Citizen Year’s Pandemic Pivot
What do you do when you run a program that has hundreds of young adults spread across the world for an intentional gap year, and a global pandemic strikes? The only thing you can do: stage an emergency evacuation to bring every kid that’s abroad back home, ASAP. And that’s exactly what Abby Falik, Founder […]
NBC: Class of 2020, college can wait. Take a Gap Year
Published in full by NBC In the coming weeks, more than 2 million high school seniors who had their sights set on college for the fall will navigate a decision no graduating class before them has ever had to consider: how — and whether — to commit to attending college in the time of […]
Getting Smart Podcast: Abby Falik on the Benefits of Global Service
Abby Falik was interviewed by Tom Vander Ark on the Getting Smart Podcast. Abby speaks about her mission to expand access to life-changing global immersion experiences between high school and college. And her belief that these experiences are uniquely suited to unlock courage, shape identity, and develop leadership and unlock courage. Find more at Getting […]
DCPS-Global Citizen Year Fellow Featured in The Washington Post
How D.C.’s class of 2019 decided what’s next They are already activists, nonprofit leaders and world travelers. They have collected acceptance letters to prestigious universities, signed commitment letters to start jobs in the coming weeks and enrolled in academies to become police officers and firefighters. They are teenagers and adults who took different paths to […]
Chicago NPR Station WBEZ Features CPS-Global Citizen Year Fellows
Extending The ‘Gap Year’ After High School Beyond Kids Of Means Four Chicago teens from low-income families are getting a chance to do something usually reserved for the wealthy.They will get to take a trip of a lifetime during a gap year after high school — for free.As part of a partnership with Chicago Public […]
Abby Falik: The Golden Ticket Money Can’t Buy: Purpose
Today is College Decision Day, and high school seniors around the country are navigating the complexity of selecting a school with an added twist: the recent (and ever-widening) college admissions scandal. While it’s been a dark moment for our self-perceived meritocracy, the bright side of the recent allegations is a public reckoning with a system that’s […]
Welcome to College. Now Take a Year Off
Colleges are offering financial aid to entice admitted students to stay away for a year. Gap years, long popular in Europe, have gained ground in the U.S. not just for wealthy teens who can afford a lengthy vacation, but also for students of modest means who want to pause before jumping into academic endeavors. Incoming […]
Harvard Business School Alumni Podcast: Bridging the Gap with Abby Falik
Global Citizen Year founder Abby Falik on why kids need to find their purpose before freshman year When Abby Falik was 18 years old and getting ready to graduate from high school, she found herself wanting to stretch. She was hungry for a kind of deep life experience before she headed off to college that would […]
Stanford Radio: Launching Students to Adulthood with guest Abby Falik
Stanford Pathfinders with Howard Wolf: Global Citizen Year founder and CEO Abby Falik discusses the importance of taking a year off between college and high school to work on projects in a non-classroom environment. Many call it taking a gap year, but she explains why it should be called a launch year.