Aspen Policy Academy

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Impact Case Study: Policy Fellowships

By the Aspen Policy Academy

The Aspen Policy Academy’s annual Fellowship has transformed 120 cross sector leaders into effective policy advocates. Following the Fellowships’ full-time training bootcamps, Academy fellows have gone on to develop 54 real-world policy proposals for government partners at the federal, state, and local levels. These projects have driven real policy change, from informing a 2026 Utah law on data center water use to helping older adults who have been scammed online to shaping official AI guidance for New York City. Fellowship alumni have also used the program as a launchpad into senior federal and local government roles and founding new policy-impact organizations.

Our Impact Case studies are short documents that showcase our alumni’s experiences with and impacts from Academy programming.

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