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“A lot of interesting debates are coming out about ownership of the net, data governance and what liberties people have online,” Fowler said. One specific issue she hopes to tackle throughout her career is power manipulation on the internet.

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Through her fellowship at VFA, Fowler hopes she will learn how to develop solutions to the social problems she studies in classes and thinks about every day. “I was able to see how technology and internet innovation, especially, can be forces for good.”įowler sees civil technology’s potential to help solve important democratic dilemmas such as food insecurity, voter mobilization, climate change mitigation and economic inequity. “Working there was revolutionary for me,” Fowler said. She worked at a Eugene-based civic technology start-up, Terrapin Data, where mentors taught her mission-driven computer programming and data analytics. “I’ve definitely thought of the internet as a weapon for evil more than anything else.”įowler’s introduction to civic technology through an internship last year flipped her pessimistic perspective to optimism. “It’s very easy to focus on the things that are wrong with technology - especially now,” she said. The group decided to donate the book’s proceeds to the Black Food Sovereignty Coalition and the Community Alliance for Global Justice.įowler’s professional interests, however, lie in digital rights and artificial intelligence. Beginning in April, Fowler helped create a cookbook Cooking While Quarantined with her UO political science professor, Alison Gash, as well as other students and alumni.

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She has been involved in several on-campus organizations including UO Mock Trial and the CHC Student Association. Additionally, VFA offers financial support for fellows’ startups after they complete the program.įowler studies political science and media studies, though her interests span across many disciplines. The fellowship prepares members to establish and grow a business themselves, connecting them with a valuable professional network that will help them along the way.

Only 10% of applicants are accepted into the program.

Fowler says that without CHC’s supportive community, she never would have applied.įor each year’s fellowship, Venture for America selects a small group of college graduates who share the potential of becoming tomorrow’s most prominent mission-driven entrepreneurs. She tried to stay composed as she read the program director’s acceptance message on camera, silently celebrating her victory as the first University of Oregon student to be invited into the cohort. Photo by Maddie Knight, CHC CommunicationsĬHC senior and Wayne Morse Scholar Emily Fowler was in a Zoom class when she learned she had been invited into the prestigious Venture for America (VFA) fellowship. Story by Lauren Church, CHC Communications

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