Youth Leadership

Youth programming often means being invited to listen. Ours is built on the opposite assumption: that a well-prepared twenty-year-old can run a rights circle better than a visiting expert, because they already speak the language of the place.

Fellowship cohorts

Fellows work through a structured curriculum — how public records are created, what transparency law can compel, research ethics, and how to write up a finding without overstating it. Each fellow completes a supervised mini-study and presents it to peers. Nothing is published until it has survived that review.

Civic labs

Shorter, open-entry workshops for students and young professionals. Participants draft a real information request, critique each other's wording, and work through what a deficient reply looks like. They leave with something they filed, not something they watched.

Facilitation training

Fellows who complete the curriculum can be trained to run community circles independently. The facilitator guide covers session structure, ground rules, and — most importantly — the boundaries: what a facilitator must never promise a participant.

Ethics first

Every cohort begins with confidentiality and documentation standards, not with content. A young volunteer who mishandles someone's account can do real damage, and the training reflects that.

Applying

Apply through the volunteer form and mention the cohort or lab you are interested in. No legal background is required. Fluency in Telugu, Hindi, or Urdu is genuinely useful.