What do Seminars, Focus Weeks and Interviews entail?
Each week, New York Fellows meet on Tuesday evening and all day Friday for seminars. In seminars, Fellows are introduced to a number of tools that sharpen key skills, such as public speaking, communicating, and facilitating. They also provide a forum for critical issues facing individual participants, the collective group or the public affairs arena at-large. In addition, Fellows use the time to examine and discuss their sector placements and issues affecting the city, such as education, health care, or the budget. Interspersed between placements are Focus Weeks, where Fellows engage in concentrated examinations of a particular sector or issue that is relevant to the public affairs arena. During these weeks, Fellows explore such issues as public finance, communication, state government, media, and federal government through experiential learning, interviews, discussions, and projects. In addition to seminars and focus weeks, interviews with prominent leaders in the public affairs arena
