Futures Fellowship
Diane Werner is an accomplished professional known for founding significant initiatives aimed at supporting under-resourced young adults and enhancing LGBTQ inclusion within the Jewish community. Since January 2021, Diane has been the Founder of the Futures Fellowship, which facilitates meaningful mentoring relationships for young adults aged 20-35, involving collaborative support from a group of mentors. Prior to this, from November 2013 to December 2020, Diane founded Mosaic of Westchester, a countywide initiative focused on enriching the Westchester Jewish community through LGBTQ inclusion. Diane holds an MBA in Marketing from Columbia Business School, an MA in Journalism from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, and a BA in Art History from Tufts University.
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Futures Fellowship
The Futures Fellowship is a mentoring program for high potential but under-resourced young adults who are looking to make the most of their professional and personal futures. The mission of the Futures Fellowship is to enable these high potential young adults to build meaningful and long-term mentoring relationships with multiple mentors. To achieve this goal, a group of mentors works as a team to COLLECTIVELY mentor a cohort of 7-12 mentees. As a result, all Futures Fellows have unlimited access to a team oF committed mentors with vastly different networks and areas of expertise (law, medicine, finance, executive search, advertising, not-for-profit). Futures Fellows benefit from the following: -Personal introductions for informational interviews -One-on-one coaching sessions for the job and informational interviews -One-on-one coaching sessions on how to network -A $1500 stipend for the 9-month commitment -Four group sessions covering topics chosen by the cohort of Futures Fellows, and one-on-one meetings with mentors in between workshops