Applications Open For The 2024-2025 Transportation Justice Fellowship

Are you an early- to mid-career transportation professional passionate about mobility justice? Apply for the 2024-2025 Transportation Justice Fellowship!

Transportation infrastructure should be designed to connect us and provide access to opportunity. But for decades, our transportation policies and investments hurt our cities. They failed people of color and low-income communities by limiting access to safe, accessible, well-maintained infrastructure and forcing them to face a disproportionate share of roadway fatalities and negative health impacts. 

Transportation justice aims to correct these inequities by providing all communities with access to safe, reliable, affordable, and equitable transportation, connecting people to the places, resources, and opportunities they need to thrive.

The Better Bike Share Partnership (BBSP) created the Transportation Justice Fellowship in 2021 to build community and skills among BIPOC working in the transportation sector. The program provides professional development and networking opportunities to help early- to mid-career professionals embed mobility justice in the transportation sector.

Apply for the 2024-2025 Transportation Justice Fellowship!

Apply here. Applications close on Monday, September 23, 2024, 11:59 p.m. EST.

The 2024-2025 Fellowship will focus on shared micromobility as a critical tool for expanding the reach of public transportation, operationalizing equity, and building transportation justice. Applicants should have familiarity with bike and scooter share, as well as a desire to learn more. This year’s fellowship runs from November 2024 through June 2025. 

From tools for professional growth to insights on how to promote equity in the transportation sector, the Transportation Justice Fellowship offers a talented group of change agents the opportunity to learn together and advance to the forefront of transportation justice in the U.S.

Program Features

The cohort will include 70 hours of programming for 11 Fellows. Programming will include:

• Training from an experienced consultant team
• Specialized skill sessions from experts in the transportation sector
• One-on-one coaching sessions from experts in the field
• Attendance at the 2025 NACTO Designing Cities Conference in Washington, D.C. 

Who should apply? 

The Fellowship is intended to benefit BIPOC professionals with one to eight years of experience who are based in the U.S. and have experience in the transportation field. The program content is designed for mobility practitioners that have or will have to confront dynamics of power and equity in the workplace. Professionals from marginalized groups are strongly encouraged to apply. 

The Fellowship is a unique opportunity for those interested in:

• Developing the competencies for racially just leadership
• Enhancing skills that strengthen the ability to advance justice in agencies or organizations
• Focusing on Shared Micromobility as a tool for operationalizing equity and transportation justice 

Fellows will build connections with their cohort, receive individualized mentorship and targeted professional development support from experts in the transportation field, and go more in depth, working on a project of personal interest to present in May 2025 at NACTO’s Designing Cities Conference in Washington D.C. Read this blog post to learn about last year’s Fellowship for more information.

Please note: This Fellowship will not prioritize candidates who have held positions of executive leadership at large organizations or public agencies. However, holding any leadership position does not automatically exclude a candidate, and we will evaluate each person on a case-by-case basis.

How to Apply: 

Apply here. Applications close on Monday, September 23, 2024 at 11:59pm EST. Selected Fellows will be notified the week of October 21, 2024. For questions, please email tjfellowship@nacto.org

Please note: This is a fellowship program; you will not be considered an employee and/or representative of NACTO.

About the Better Bike Share Partnership:

The Better Bike Share Partnership is a collaboration between People for Bikes, the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), and the City of Philadelphia. The BBSP is funded by the JPB Foundation to increase access to and use of shared micromobility systems in low-income and BIPOC communities. 

Learn more about our past Transportation Justice Fellows:

• 2023-2024 Transportation Justice Fellows
• 2022-2023 Transportation Justice Fellows
• 2021 Transportation Justice Fellows