Global Scholar equips youth to be visionary leaders and bold changemakers around urgent global challenges.
Global Scholar is a leading global leadership accelerator for youth ready to tackle the world’s most pressing challenges. We’ve empowered over 100,000 youth worldwide to turn bold ideas into lasting impact. Through expert-led seminars, transformative workshops, and hands-on leadership projects, participants build the knowledge, skills, and confidence to drive change.
Key Program Elements
Join us this summer, online, in Washington, DC or in Atlanta!
Gain powerful and marketable skills that will last a lifetime.
The program rests on three pillars: exploring our role as global citizens, deepening our understanding of global challenges, and expanding our skills to be leaders and change makers. Scholars will leave with:
- a stronger sense of self and purpose, including tools for self-care and goal setting. Scholars also explore global careers, schools and opportunities.
- greater fluency in the causes and impacts of our greatest challenges including: climate change, human rights, global security, inequality, immigration.
- a stronger network. Scholars meet with experts working on the front lines of global change, and learn with and from other inspired youth leaders.
- powerful tools to envision, design, communicate and win change around issues they care about.
- a renewed sense of hope and possibility for building a better world, and the skills and confidence to get started. They benefit from year-round coaching and small funding opportunities, too.
Scholars can also launch a project, help lead research or writing of our annual State of Global Youth Report, receive a recommendation and certificate, and access our alumni network and ongoing leadership opportunities.
Join our global network of youth leaders and changemakers.
Global Scholar is just the beginning! Since our founding by students at Yale after 9/11, we have engaged well over 100,000 youth around the world with our work. We’re excited to welcome you to the community. Here are a few highlights you can look forward to as an alum:
- Monthly coaching calls: Fall 2024. Global Scholar alums are invited to monthly coaching calls with AMP trainers and fellow alumni, to continue to build skills and community. Whether you’re launching a project you designed during Global Scholar, or working with an existing group at your school, we’re here to back you up.
- Power Up Virtual Conference: Winter 2024-25. Our virtual winter conference is another opportunity to connect with other alums, expand your knowledge about our greatest global challenges, and share what you’ve learned with others.
- Alumni Reunion and Advanced Training: Summer 2025. Alumni are also invited back to DC the summer after their program, to reconvene with staff, bring their ideas to Capitol Hill, and share their wisdom with the newest class of Scholars.
Positions with the AMP network and Global Scholar. The majority of the positions in our broader community are staffed by Global Scholar alums! This year, alumni from across the US as well as Pakistan, Mongolia, Syria, and Morocco led our State of Global Youth Report. This spring, alumni are helping with marketing and outreach for Global Scholar. This summer, five alumni are joining our Global Scholar training team (you’ll meet them soon!). And two alums serve on our Board of Directors. We truly walk the talk when it comes to youth leadership.
Join us, in Washington, DC, Atlanta, GA, or Online.
Our core Washington, DC program is 9 days, and you can add a 6-day extension to stay even longer. We are also offering an incredible new experience in Atlanta, based at Emory University and visiting the Legacy Museum and key sites of the US civil rights movement. Scholars can also join our popular virtual program, which brings a rich group of youth leaders from around the world together online. All of our Global Scholars will have the choice to craft a final project or participate in the State of Global Youth Report team as their capstone experience. Here’s our summer 2025 line-up:
Session 1: Washington, DC. Sat June 28-Sun July 6. Georgetown University
Session 2: Washington, DC. Sat July 12-Sun July 20. $2100. Georgetown University
Session 3: Washington, DC extension. Sun July 6-Fri July 11. Georgetown University
Session 4: Washington, DC – Middle School. Sun July 6-Fri July 11. Georgetown University
Session 5: Atlanta and Civil Rights Trail. Sun July 20-Mon July 28. Emory University & Civil Rights Trail
Session 6: Virtual. Sun July 6-Fri July 11. Online, 11-3pm ET each program day, with additional individual and group work hours.
Find full dates, pricing and details here.
We also know this has been an incredibly difficult time for many families financially. As a non-profit organization, our goal is to reach as many youth as possible with this life-changing experience. Our rates are significantly lower than any other competitor program, as we are a nonprofit organization, not a company trying to maximize revenue. Last year we awarded almost $50,000 in scholarship support. Find out more on the Application and FAQ pages.
2025 Workshop Dates
Our Impact
Our participants increase their understanding of new and continuing global challenges – all while building their confidence as leaders.
of recent alumni would recommend Global Scholar to a friend.
Parents surveyed said Global Scholar increased their student’s understanding of global issues.
Youth have participated in AMP Global Youth programs since we were founded by students at Yale after 9/11.
After attending Global Scholar, I now feel better prepared to make a positive impact on not only my community but the world.
After attending Global Scholar, I now feel better prepared to make a positive impact on not only my community but the world. Global Scholar was a really wonderful program that opened my eyes to different ways to make change and think about the systems that make up our world.
It’s such a great experience. If you are or are not into international affairs, you will go back home with such confidence, with all the knowledge you had acquired through this intense program. It will build your confidence in so many ways, such as public speaking, being inclusive, teamwork, support and so much!
Global Scholar was a really wonderful program that opened my eyes to different ways to make change and think about the systems that make up our world.