Smithsonian Collaborators

The Bird Friendly Coffee and Cacao Program

Smithsonian Bird Friendly

The Smithsonian Bird Friendly certification is the environmental gold standard in sustainable food production, using research and participatory conservation to preserve critical habitat for birds and wildlife, fight climate change, protect biodiversity, and support farmers committed to conserving bird and wildlife habitat by farming sustainably.

Smithsonian’s Office of Digital Transformation 

Office of the Deputy Secretary, Smithsonian Institution 

The office is dedicated to creating and executing an Institution-wide digital strategy, focused on building purposeful connections between the knowledge Smithsonian shares and the people it serves, striving to ensure every household and classroom has access to the Smithsonian’s content. 

National Museum of Natural History

Smithsonian Institution

The NMNH’s mission is to promote understanding of the natural world and our place in it, through research, educational programs, and exhibits. The museum’s collections tell the history of the planet and are a record of human interaction with the environment, and are a starting point for shaping a sustainable world.

Smithsonian Science Education Center

Smithsonian Institution

The SSEC connects students in urban, rural, and suburban areas to their communities and to a world of discovery around them to work on solving real-world problems that ensure a sustainable planet, through authentic, inquiry-based K-12 science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) teaching and learning, and ensuring diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion.

External Collaborators

Ocean Nexus + EarthLab at University of Washington

Fellowship partner

A collaboration with The Nippon Foundation, a global leader in bringing together justice and sustainability to the oceans for future generations, Ocean Nexus at UW EarthLab contributes to transforming ocean governance through scholarship, communication, and training a transdisciplinary and international network of researchers integrating human-centered tools, perspectives, evidence and narratives.

World Economic Forum

Fellowship partner

The Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation, engaging political, business, and cultural leaders of society to come together to shape global, regional and industry agendas, and to address the world’s most pressing challenges, fulfilling their mission to improve the state of the world.