Chapin Hall

Chapin Hall’s fellowships equip future leaders to improve the lives of youth, children, and families by connecting evidence to action.

Harold A. Richman Postdoctoral Fellowship

Named for Chapin Hall’s founding director, the Harold A. Richman Postdoctoral Fellowship is a two-year position that offers early-career scholars the opportunity to strengthen their research portfolios and help launch careers in social policy research. Fellows work with senior researchers at Chapin Hall and faculty at the University of Chicago’s Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. Candidates should have interests in early childhood services, family support, child care, and/or early education policy.

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Equity First Fellows and Summer Associates

Equity First Fellows

Chapin Hall has made an organizational commitment to look for the leadership and involvement of Black, Latino/a and mixed race people in every phase of our work – from how we bring equity forward into our interrogations and policy design, to how we support the use of evidence and the implementation of policy with our government partners. To this end, in January 2022, Chapin Hall welcomed its first three Equity First Fellows. These fellows have expertise in racial inequity, child well-being, public systems transformation, and community change. Through this effort, we seek to build in the perspectives of those whose life experiences directly or more closely match those whose lives we seek to support.

Equity First Summer Associates

Further acting to expand the pool of applied researchers whose life experiences directly or more closely match those whose lives we seek to support, in Summer 2024, Chapin Hall launched its Equity First Summer Associates Program. 

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