THE REGIONICITY FELLOWSHIP
Exploring Regenerative Economic Development Across Disciplines
The Regionicity Fellowship brings together practitioners from different disciplines to explore, challenge, and advance regenerative economic development through conversation, writing, and applied regional experience.
Why the Fellowship?
Regional challenges rarely belong to a single discipline. The Fellowship creates a space for practitioners in business, agriculture, education, workforce, science, environment, hospitality, journalism, culture, and community development to examine how their work intersects at the regional level.
The goal is not to force agreement. It is to surface better questions, challenge assumptions, and develop practical perspectives that can inform The Regionicity Report, regional initiatives, and future applied work.
How the Fellowship Works
Convene
Bring practitioners together for focused conversations around regional and rural economic-development challenges.
Challenge
Test assumptions, surface disagreements, and examine where different disciplines reinforce, or conflict with, one another.
Publish
Develop essays, roundtables, field notes, and practitioner perspectives for The Regionicity Report.
Apply
Use what emerges from the conversations to inform regional initiatives, partnerships, and practical implementation.
The Founding Conversation
The Fellowship will begin with a small exploratory roundtable focused on a central question:
Can regenerative economic development provide a useful framework for building stronger regional and rural economies?
Participants will be invited to challenge the framework, identify what it gets right or misses, and explore how different professional lenses change the conversation.
The first meeting is intended to test chemistry, curiosity, and the value of continuing the conversation together.
Perspectives at the Table
The Regionicity Fellowship is designed to bring together practitioners who see regional challenges from different angles.
That may include perspectives from agriculture, workforce development, education, business, science, conservation, hospitality, journalism, culture, healthcare, public service, and community development.
The value comes from the differences between those perspectives.
A farmer may see a land-use issue differently than a planner. An educator may see a workforce challenge differently than an employer. A chef, journalist, scientist, or artist may notice aspects of regional identity that others overlook.
The Fellowship creates a place for those perspectives to meet, question one another, and develop a more complete understanding of what makes a region thrive.
Who Becomes a Fellow?
Regionicity Fellows are practitioners first.
They are experienced program managers, operators, entrepreneurs, educators, public servants, scientists, producers, and other professionals with a demonstrated record of turning ideas into action.
Fellows are selected for more than subject-matter expertise. They have designed programs, managed initiatives, built organizations, introduced innovations, implemented solutions, or led meaningful change within the regions and industries they serve.
The Fellowship is a community of proven doers who are willing to test ideas, share what they have learned, and help move regenerative economic development from concept to practice.
Meet the Fellows
Regionicity Fellows are proven practitioners who bring different professional experiences, regional perspectives, and areas of expertise to the conversation.
Each Fellow has a demonstrated record of designing, managing, implementing, or advancing real-world programs, organizations, innovations, or regional initiatives.
They contribute their own lens while exploring how place, working lands, workforce, community, and infrastructure intersect within regional economies.
Fellows to Be Announced Soon
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What Participation Looks Like
The Fellowship is intended to be substantive without becoming another standing committee. Fellows will participate based on their interests, availability, and expertise.
Fellows participate in periodic conversations, contribute ideas and professional perspectives, and help identify stories, people, projects, and regional examples worth exploring or acting on.
Participation may also include writing, interviews, roundtable discussions, field observations, collaborative projects, or contributions to The Regionicity Report.
The Fellowship is designed to remain flexible enough for people with active professional lives while creating meaningful opportunities to learn from one another and contribute to the broader conversation around regenerative economic development.
The expectation is thoughtful participation, not a fixed number of hours or a rigid program of activities.
There is no expectation that every Fellow participate in every conversation or publication.
Global Challenges. Regional Responses.
Economic, environmental, workforce, and social challenges may be global in scale, but they take shape differently in every region.
The Regionicity Fellowship explores what becomes possible when practitioners from different disciplines examine those challenges through the context of place, local economies, working lands, workforce, community, and infrastructure.
By bringing those perspectives together, the Fellowship seeks to develop ideas that are grounded enough to matter locally and useful enough to inform work elsewhere.
The goal is not a single answer. It is a stronger regional response.