This elite program provides up-and-coming leaders with the tools they need to achieve success in the apple industry, including hands-on experience with legislative and regulatory issues, professional development, a one-on-one mentorship program, opportunities to network with top industry leaders, team-building with peers, and much more.
Eligibility:
- Emerging apple leaders who are at the start of their career through age 35 are eligible to participate.
- Must serve the apple industry in some capacity (i.e. growing, shipping, packing, marketing, retailing, procurement, etc.)
- Former NextGen/Young Apple Leader participants are not eligible.
To Apply:
- Tell us about yourself and why you want to be a NextGen Apple Fellow in a short video (1-2 minutes, selfie style is fine). Please share what you’re hoping to learn.
- Submit a letter of recommendation from an industry, community, or academic leader.
- Include your contact information (name, title, company, cell phone, address).
- Send all of the materials to NextGen@usapple.org.
Key Dates:
- December 17, 2024: Application materials are due and should be sent to NextGen@usapple.org
- January 8-24, 2025: Virtual interviews are held.
- February 1, 2025: Notification of acceptance into the fellowship.
- The Program will run from February 2025 through December 2025.
Tuition:
USApple covers hotels, meals, on-site travel, and all programming registration and activities, which averages about $6,000 per participant. Participants are responsible for their own airfare and travel (baggage, airport parking, taxi to airport, etc). It is the expectation that participants’ employers cover their airfare.
What is Expected:
NextGen Fellows are expected to be prepared, on-time, and professional throughout each session. They are expected to actively participate virtually (each month) and in-person (3 times a year). Fellows each film a video for USApple’s #FreshPicks series, are expected to be active on USApple’s social media, and must work together on their class project, outside of monthly virtual sessions. They are expected to take time to meet with their mentors and to work on a few professional development “assignments.”
Mandatory Travel Includes:
- NextGen Kickoff Meeting, in conjunction with USApple’s Capitol Hill Day, in Washington, D.C., March 24-26, 2025.
- USApple’s Outlook Conference in Chicago, August 13-15, 2025 .
- Session 3 (Location/Date TBD – typically early December) .
