SNAP Fellows are instrumental in
progressive campaigns, honing their political skills
as they win votes one by one for our candidates.
Each election cycle, SNAP recruits college students, recent graduates, and college-age youth from around the country to serve as organizing fellows. Admission is highly selective and is aimed at youth from communities that are underrepresented in politics.
SNAP Fellows receive an intensive three-day training, then work for ten to twelve weeks in the summer months as full-time Field Organizers for SNAP-endorsed candidates. Some Fellows may elect to stay in the field through November with support from SNAP and our partners.
SNAP Fellows are building a stronger and more diverse progressive movement.
SNAP PAC supports all of our fellows with need-based stipends, because we believe that our movement needs a leadership that reflects its true diversity.
Financial support from SNAP PAC makes it possible for low-income students, as well as first-generation college students and graduates, to begin their careers as outstanding staff and organizers in the progressive movement.
SNAP Fellow Alumni are prepared to lead in government, politics, labor, and the non-profit sector.
Our 54 SNAP Fellow Alumni are experienced political leaders who are ready to excel in progressive campaigns and organizations.
Many alumni who return from the SNAP Fellowship to their college campuses become key youth and student organizers, while older alumni serve in a variety of positions of responsibility within our movement.
Read more about the leadership and activism of SNAP Fellow Alumni here.
"Manpower is the lifeblood of the progressive movement
- Chastidy Burns, 2009 SNAP Fellow
Each election cycle, SNAP recruits college students, recent graduates, and college-age youth from around the country to serve as organizing fellows. Admission is highly selective and is aimed at youth from communities that are underrepresented in politics.
SNAP Fellows receive an intensive three-day training, then work for ten to twelve weeks in the summer months as full-time Field Organizers for SNAP-endorsed candidates. Some Fellows may elect to stay in the field through November with support from SNAP and our partners.
SNAP Fellows are building a stronger and more diverse progressive movement.
SNAP PAC supports all of our fellows with need-based stipends, because we believe that our movement needs a leadership that reflects its true diversity.
Financial support from SNAP PAC makes it possible for low-income students, as well as first-generation college students and graduates, to begin their careers as outstanding staff and organizers in the progressive movement.
SNAP Fellow Alumni are prepared to lead in government, politics, labor, and the non-profit sector.
Our 54 SNAP Fellow Alumni are experienced political leaders who are ready to excel in progressive campaigns and organizations.
Many alumni who return from the SNAP Fellowship to their college campuses become key youth and student organizers, while older alumni serve in a variety of positions of responsibility within our movement.
Read more about the leadership and activism of SNAP Fellow Alumni here.
"Manpower is the lifeblood of the progressive movement
... as a SNAP Fellow, I felt I was part of something larger than myself."
- Chastidy Burns, 2009 SNAP Fellow
Elaine
graduated from the University of California -
Irvine before becoming a 2010 SNAP Fellow. She is a
first-generation college graduate and has gone on to work
on several progressive campaigns in Southern California.
Aja served as a 2006
SNAP Fellow after her freshman year at Pace University.She helped elect Rep. Joe Courtney (CT-2) by an 83-vote margin in 2006, and is now a legislative aide to New York City Council Member Letitia James (WFP-Brooklyn).
Paul was a SNAP Fellow
on Tom Perriello's 2008 campaign, helping to elect Tom
(VA-5) by just 727 votes.He graduated from the University of Virginia in 2010 and is currently a speechwriter for the British embassy to the United States.
Marissa helped to
found SNAP PAC and was a 2006 SNAP Fellow. She graduated
from college in 2007 and now works
as a staff organizer with UNITE HERE Local 1 in Chicago.