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Join a community of fellows, practitioners, and innovators driving social strategy across the Pacific Hemisphere.
Working Groups
Collaborate across sectors to tackle real Pacific challenges through our stakeholder-driven strategy development process.
Fellowships
Propose a project, conduct independent research, publish strategic insights, and lead a working group to shape the Pacific future.
Internships
Gain hands-on experience supporting strategy development, get school credit, and develop your own strategy project proposal.
Our Process
1. Define the Problem
We begin by surfacing pressing strategic challenges in the Pacific. Fellows identify issues, map the context, and identify stakeholders and their interests.
Outputs: Issue Briefs and in-depth Background Primers.
2. Convene Stakeholders
Through convenings and working groups, we bring stakeholders together to scope the problem, debate options, and define what success looks like—aligning ends, ways, and means. The process is transparent, iterative, and documented along the way.
Outputs: Stakeholder Readouts and real-time Substack Updates culminating in a formal Process Report documenting how the strategy was developed.
3. Design the Strategy
Once strategies take shape, we ensure they reach the right audiences. We distill findings into accessible formats and publish them on our website.
Outputs: The Strategy White Paper is published with accompanying visuals and infographics, policy briefs, and presentations.
4. Coordinate Implementation
Our strategies are designed for action. Stakeholders leave the process equipped to implement solutions within their organizations, governments, or communities. We track progress, capture lessons learned, and feed them back into future cycles.
Outputs: Stakeholders develop and publish Implementation Plans, provide Progress Updates, and Case Study Reports.
Fellowships
Our fellows are true leaders in social strategy. The fellowship program supports scholars, practitioners, and emerging leaders who are advancing bold, interdisciplinary ideas across the Pacific Hemisphere. Fellows propose their own projects, publish briefs, and lead working groups that translate ideas into actionable strategies.
Fellows receive mentorship, editorial support, and collaboration opportunities through the Center’s growing network. Whether researching maritime security, innovation policy, or Pacific cooperation, fellows turn insight into impact.
Opportunities include:
Hands-on strategy development and project management experience
Meaningful networking with working group members and regional stakeholders
Multiple opportunities to publish reports, briefs, and a final strategy white paper
Working Groups
Our working groups bring together experts, practitioners, and community stakeholders to co-develop solutions that can be implemented in the real world. They include representatives from leading companies, non-governmental organizations, and academic institutions across the Pacific, enabling collaboration between industry innovators and public decision-makers.
Each group focuses on a specific strategic issue — from maritime security to climate resilience — and works through The La Jolla Center’s social strategy development process.
Working Groups meet virtually and in person throughout the project, contributing to strategy briefs, committing to coordinated action, and developing cross-sector partnerships that endure beyond the group itself.
Opportunities include:
Hands-on experience designing and implementing real-world Pacific strategies
Collaboration with experts, industry-leaders, and policymakers across sectors
Opportunities to represent your organization or industry in cooperative dialogues
Internships
Our graduate internships provide a hands-on introduction to strategy development and applied research at The La Jolla Center for Pacific Strategy. Interns work alongside fellows and staff, supporting real-world projects while building the skills needed to become future fellows themselves.
Interns gain exposure to every stage of the Center’s social strategy development process — from defining strategic problems to helping implement and evaluate solutions. Throughout the program, they receive mentorship and feedback to prepare a competitive fellowship proposal for future consideration.
Opportunities include:
Direct experience supporting ongoing working groups and fellowship projects
Mentorship and skill-building in strategy design, analysis, and communication
Guidance and support in developing an original fellowship proposal
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