The LAUNCH: HBCU Fellowship will help 15 college students in a paid eight-week program ending with the chance to use for an internship or open place on the animation firm.
DreamWorks Animation has partnered with HBCU 20×20, the world’s largest community for HBCU and Black job seekers, on a brand new expertise improvement program for present college students and soon-to-be graduates seeking to start their skilled profession in animation.
The LAUNCH: HBCU Fellowship Program will choose 15 people from traditionally Black schools and universities to take part in a paid eight-week curriculum that features numerous workshops and programs targeted on subjects like constructing one’s model and attaining variety on display. This system, which can run by means of the spring, will characteristic a speaker sequence to assist fellows grow to be acquainted with the assorted paths a profession in animation can take.
“DreamWorks strives to introduce and carve a path for Black college students, and we discovered the right companion to create a significant fellowship program with HBCU 20×20,” Rabia Abedin, DreamWorks Animation’s Supervisor of Early Profession Packages & Variety Outreach, mentioned. “LAUNCH will proceed DreamWorks ongoing dedication to remove obstacles in animation for the Black group, and we imagine that this program will create impactful alternatives for everybody concerned.”
The fellowship will double as a networking alternative, permitting contributors to construct their skilled connections and relationships with business veterans. On the finish of this system, these chosen may also have the chance to use and interview for an open place at DreamWorks Animation or the corporate’s internship program.
As a part of being a LAUNCH fellow, people will obtain a stipend courtesy of the studio.
“This can be a first of its sort partnership, and HBCU 20×20 is worked up to embark on this journey with DreamWorks Animation,” Nicole Tinson, Founder and CEO of HBCU 20×20, mentioned. “We’re trying ahead to making sure extra individuals throughout the HBCU, and finally, the Black group, are ready, prepared and related to profession alternatives in animation. We’re grateful to everybody at DreamWorks who continues their ongoing dedication in variety, fairness and inclusion.”
Potential contributors can submit their LAUNCH functions for the skilled improvement program at hbcu20x20.org/dreamworks. The applying interval begins on Feb. 1, with the submission window closing on March 1.
That is the most recent endeavor for HBCU 20×20, which companions with corporations and organizations to assist put together and join each Black faculty college students and professionals for job and internship alternatives. The group goals to extend financial and social mobility throughout the HBCU and Black group by means of its tutorial and profession sources.
LAUNCH additionally marks one more effort by DreamWorks Animation to broaden skilled improvement and profession alternatives for underrepresented expertise in animation. Amongst its rising suite of packages and initiatives was the 2021 launch of the Common Animation Writers Program, which noticed 5 scribes paid to develop their work over a 12 months in collaboration with inventive executives from DreamWorks Animation and Illumination.