"The Civic Media Fellowship is a program  empowering artists, creators, storytellers, innovators, organizers, strategists and others working at the intersections of media, technology and culture to further hone their practice through eight months of exploration and collaboration with a dynamic, diverse, and amazing cohort of Fellows. Based at the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab.

"We welcome interest from people using diverse forms of media and technology with participatory practices to advance social progress in ways that defy easy categorization, recombining areas including the arts, curation, journalism, history, video, music, food, textiles, writing, technology and much more. We prioritize perspectives, voices, and issues which have been historically under-represented and marginalized.

"For the 2026-27 program, we're looking for a cohort of 8, who will meet once per week from September to early May, and receive a total stipend of $16,000 over 8 months. We’re not considering tenured faculty or full-time students for this cohort."

See the complete posting online. The Expression of Interest will close at 11:59 PM, PST on February 20, 2026.