Overview

Purpose & Public Health Media Network Fellowship Organization: Voice Up Initiative: Voice Up Media Network Location: Remote / Virtual Mission: We connect people to purpose. Participation Options Students may participate based on their interests, academic requirements, and availability: Paid Special Projects: Selected participants may complete special projects at $20 $30 per hour for up to 10 hours per month. Academic Credit: Students may participate for internship, practicum, field-placement, independent-study, or other academic credit according to their college or university requirements. Combined Participation: Some students may receive academic credit while also completing separately assigned paid special projects. A New Kind of Media Network The Voice Up Media Network is being built as a first-of-its-kind media network organized around one central mission: We connect people to purpose. Most media networks begin with a subject news, sports, music, business, or entertainment. Voice Up begins somewhere different. We begin with people and purpose. We believe every person has experiences, interests, talents, ideas, history, and stories that can contribute something meaningful to the world. Our goal is to create a network where those voices can be discovered, developed, connected, preserved, and shared. This is not simply a network people watch. It is a network people can help build. Participants do not simply consume media. They research, create, participate, and share what matters to them alongside people who care about similar things. Who We Are Recruiting Voice Up intentionally looks beyond traditional definitions of who belongs in media. Students from virtually any academic discipline may apply, including undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, medical, and professional students. We are especially interested in student athletes, journalists and storytellers, historians and researchers, nurses and future healthcare professionals, innovators and entrepreneurs, future leaders, creative artists, and musicians. Student Athletes can explore athletics, leadership, mental health, identity, career transition, community impact, and life beyond competition. Journalists and Storytellers can investigate stories, conduct interviews, develop features, produce multimedia content, and create purpose-centered journalism that asks not only What happened? but also Why does it matter? Whose perspective is missing? What can people learn? Historians and Researchers can recover overlooked stories, document communities, conduct oral histories, explore cultural traditions, and preserve histories that might otherwise disappear. History does not have to remain inside an archive. Through media, it can become a living resource connecting generations. Nurses and Future Health Leaders can translate knowledge about public health, behavioral health, prevention, wellness, healthcare innovation, patient experiences, and community health into stories people can understand and use. Innovators, Entrepreneurs, and Future Leaders can help build the network itself developing new shows, digital platforms, campus networks, audience strategies, publications, partnerships, and responsible applications of artificial intelligence. Creative Artists and Musicians can use music, visual art, photography, film, poetry, dance, design, and other forms of expression to explore culture, history, identity, health, belonging, community, and purpose. What Could You Create? There is no single required media product. Your work could become a feature story, podcast, interview series, documentary concept, historical investigation, oral-history project, sports and leadership series, health education project, student-athlete platform, music or arts series, campus publication, digital magazine, photo essay, video series, cultural-history project, public or behavioral health feature, AI-supported media innovation, new Voice Up show or something that does not exist yet. You Are Joining at the Beg