Most people with a good idea for change never get the time or support to turn it into something real. The Mira Fellowship gives them both: a reflective fellowship experience paired with rigorous design thinking, so rising leaders leave with more than an idea. They leave with a clear story, a tested plan, and the confidence to pursue it at scale. Fellows are already turning their visions into real pilots, programs, and campaigns that challenge the status quo.

Coeylen "Co" Barry, Co-Founder, The Mira Fellowship

After earning her master's at Stanford, Co joined the founding team of the African Leadership Academy in South Africa, where she built a curriculum in leadership and entrepreneurship that's since helped launch ventures and movements shaping the continent's future. She later trained educators worldwide in design-driven teaching at Stanford's d.school. That path led her to found The Mira Fellowship, giving emerging leaders across the globe the same chance she'd spent her career creating for others: the space to step back, research a real problem, and build a plan with real impact.