page_title: Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs
section_title: Fellowship program
hierarchical_section_title: Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs / Fellowship program
caption_attribution_description: English: Former US Secretary of State and diplomat Madeleine Albright sits smiling in a chair on stage at a public forum organized by the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs, which Albright founded at Wellesley College. Albright, known for wearing symbolic pins and brooches, wears a pin in the shape of the Wellesley College "W" logo.
context_page_description: The Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs is an international studies institute based at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. The Albright Institute was established by former United States Secretary of State and Wellesley College alumna Madeleine Albright in 2009 to support the interdisciplinary study of global issues within a liberal arts framework.
  The Albright Institute organizes a variety of educational programs and public events, including fellowship and internship programs for undergraduate students as well as public events and lectures relating to current events and global issues. Approximately forty undergraduate students from Wellesley College are selected annually as Albright Fellows. Notable speakers and visiting professors at the Albright Institute have included Madeleine Albright, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Christine Lagarde, Mark Malloch-Brown, Wendy Sherman, Samantha Power, Sri Mulyani Indrawati, and James Wolfensohn.
context_section_description: The Albright Institute organizes an annual fellowship program for undergraduates studying at Wellesley College. Around forty juniors and seniors are selected each year as "Albright Fellows" who participate in a three-week education and leadership program during the "Wintersession" scholastic term in January. The Albright Fellows program includes lectures, classes, and workshops with invited professors, researchers, and experts in a variety of disciplines. Following the January session, Fellows complete three-month summer internships addressing global issues around the world.
  Numerous prominent women in American politics and diplomacy have participated in the Albright Fellows Wintersession program as Distinguished Visiting Professors or invited lecturers. Madeleine Albright has participated to some degree in every session since the program's inception, including as its inaugural Distinguished Visiting Professor. The Albright Institute has hosted multiple US Ambassadors and diplomats including Albright, Hillary Clinton, Wendy Sherman, Samantha Power, Elizabeth Cousins, and Victoria Nuland, as well as former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, former US diplomat Nicholas Burns and former White House Chief of Staff John Podesta.
  Invited academics, scientists, and activists have included humanitarian leader Ophelia Dahl, Homi Kharas of the Brookings Institution, and astrophysicist Richard French who participated in NASA's Cassini Mission.
  Wellesley College was founded as a historically women's liberal arts college and its admissions policy as of 2015 accepts applications from transgender women and non-binary people assigned female at birth. The Albright Institute, drawing applicants for its Albright Fellows program from the general Wellesley student body, therefore accepts cisgender and transgender women, as well as trans and non-binary students. Additionally, the Institute has awarded numerous Albright Fellowships to students in the Davis Degree Program, which confers Bachelor of Arts degrees to female-identified non-traditional students. The Albright Fellowship is unusual among American collegiate fellowship programs in global affairs for its focus on the career development of predominantly female-identified students and nontraditional students.
  The Albright Institute manages additional internship programs with partners including the Albright Stonebridge Group, the Clinton Foundation, the National Democratic Institute, the Lobkowicz Palace, and the University of Cabo Verde. The Institute runs an online blog entitled The Spoke which publishes articles on domestic and global issues.
  Madeleine Albright has used Albright Institute events as opportunities to connect with current Wellesley students and express personal reflections on her education and career. In 2012 Albright visited a student-run cooperative cafe on campus where she had worked and served as manager during her junior and senior years at Wellesley from 1957 to 1959. During a 2016 lunch event for Albright Fellows in which she discussed her path from refugee to college student to first female US Secretary of State, she stated "Madeleine Korbel did not become Madeleine Albright overnight. It takes time."
  Albright is known for wearing decorative brooches (pins) to convey messages relating to politics, current events, and humor – a practice which was documented in her 2009 book Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat's Jewel Box and in a traveling exhibition of her personal jewelry collection at the Museum of Art and Design in New York City. During a visit to Wellesley College to promote her jewelry exhibition and book, Albright explained, "Wellesley was one of the first places that gave me the opportunity to engage with global politics, develop my political views and explore creative ways to express those views so it’s only fitting to bring pins and politics back to Wellesley." In keeping with Albright's penchant for symbolic pin-wearing, the Albright Institute created numerous commemorative pins which are given to Albright Fellows and affiliates of the institute.
caption: Madeleine Albright attending an Albright Institute event, wearing the logo pin of Wellesley College.
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