Truman Security Fellowship

The Truman Security Fellowship is a highly competitive award for professionals who show early promise to become our country's future progressive leadership. The one-year Fellowship offers unique hands-on training in national security, access to a powerful network of peers and leaders across the country, and assistance with obtaining positions of national security leadership around the country.

Truman Security Fellows spend a year in their home cities taking part in monthly seminars with their peers to enhance their national security policy knowledge, as well as to deepen their understanding of the rich philosophical and historical background of the progressive national security tradition. Fellows also take part in experiential learning such as visits to military bases, emergency response centers, and FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force headquarters; and engage in discussion with guest speakers who are experts in the security field. Twice a year, in June and January, Truman Security Fellows are invited to Washington for high-level conferences with senior policy experts and political leaders. In Washington, Fellows take part in skill-building workshops to enhance their communication and media skills. At these two conferences, participants meet the national network of Fellows and interact with top progressive leaders so that they can become powerful voices for security leadership in their communities.

Alumni of the Truman Security Fellowship may take part in our 501c4 Membership activities, where they put their skills to work in the public sphere in their localities. They have served in key posts in Sen. Obama, Sen. Clinton, and Sen. Edwards' campaigns as foreign policy advisors, speechwriters, and communications staff. They have served as National Security Advisors to over 30 Congressional campaigns in 2008. And they are appearing in the national media across the country, spreading the Truman Project's security worldview.