When we launched the first iteration of our Blog-Building Intensive Fellowship in 2023, a crucial open question was “is there enough high-caliber progress talent out there worth accelerating?” The answer, with our first cohort, was a resounding “yes!” Our second and third cohorts have shown that that that first year was no fluke.  This year we again received several hundred applications of such high quality that it was challenging to select down to our target of 25 participants, which is how we ended up with a larger cohort of 31 fellows!

We’re thrilled to have such a great community come together. The tide of history isn’t always carried by the side with the best ideas. It is carried by the side with the intellectuals who are best at presenting and arguing for its ideas. 

Introducing our 2025 Blog-Building Intensive Fellowship Cohort.

This year’s fellows are a group 31 of impressive progress thinkers and writers, selected from a pool of over 400 applicants. They are scientists, urbanists, economists, lawyers, farmers, professors, policy-makers, builders, entrepreneurs and storytellers from the U.S., Canada, Ireland, the U.K., and Germany. They speak English, French, Mandarin, Farsi, Hindi, Korean, German, and Spanish. And they’ll be writing about medical history, apprenticeship programs, precision agriculture, American reindustrialization, competition with China, trains and transportation, Irish progress, aging research, biotechnology, the moral imperative of progress and so much more.