Visionary Heritage Fellows Program
About The Visionary Heritage Fellows Program (VHFP) offers a unique opportunity for talented students, selected annually from participating institutions, to learn from Visionary elders through direct dialogue, informal mentorship, and video documentation. Each fall, the chosen Fellows engage in faculty supervised independent study coursework, documenting the lives of Visionaries the students have selected from communities across the country.
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highlights of
the 2007 VHFP
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The annual Visionary Heritage Fellows Program Leadership and Training Conference (see video on right) serves as the kick-off of the program. All Fellows attend a five day session held in Washington, DC the summer before classes begin. The Conference includes interactive training workshops, discussion sessions with National Visionaries, seminars on leadership development, and a multi-group project in video biography production. With support from Time Warner Inc., NVLP underwrites all expenses, including transportation, materials, accommodations, and meals. In addition, the Time Warner grant has allowed NVLP to accept more students into the program and work with additional partnering institutions.
DeAndrea Solomon, left and Cleandria Chevalier
record interviews during the Fellows Conference.
All Fellows receive full academic credit for their work, and become eligible for scholarship awards given annually at the Visionary Heritage Fellows Program Leadership and Training Conference.
Each year’s class of VHFP Fellows contributes to the archival preservation of African American history, life stories and data (which otherwise might be lost), creating vital resources for scholars, other young people and the general public. All interviews are added, in their entirety, to the NVLP Oral History Archive.
2009 Program Dates:
Early April - Deadline for applications
Mid-April - Announcement of the chosen Fellows
June/July - VHFP Leadership and Training Conference
Late October - Interviews must be completed
Mid-December - Deadline for all project materials to NVLP
Early March - Announcement of scholarship winners
