Tyche Fellows

Directing ambition towards .

A fellowship for students to create real value in the lives of others.

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The idea

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Formless ambition

You want to work on something that matters. Maybe you have an idea, a problem worth solving, a starting point.

The fellowship

Eligibility

Undergrads

East Coast preferred

come with an idea

The funding
$10k

Stipend · Summer 2027

Timeline

4-day June kickoff

Summer cohort

Selectivity

Five

fellows a year

What we believe

  1. Traditional pipelines aren't the only path.

    The brightest, most ambitious minds in the current generation have been funneled into the same few careers because it's the only path laid out for them. We help strivers lay their own path.

  2. Prestige is fossilized inspiration.

    Nothing is inherently prestigious. If you do anything well enough, you'll make it prestigious. Build something to actually be proud of.

  3. Ambition needs infrastructure.

    Money, mentors, and people who genuinely want to help. Not a panel to perform for, and nobody to put on a pedestal.

A note from the founders

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Sailihe Men

Brown ’28

College students are handed an incomplete list of career options. When I got to Brown, orientation week was full of people who wanted to build ways to fix real problems and turn what they cared about into real work. Three years later most of those conversations have gone quiet, and the same ambitious people drifted, one by one, toward traditional, safe paths.

It made me wonder what narrows everyone down at a school that’s supposed to be one of the most open in the country. I knew the structure for the alternative was important, and I didn’t see that in the impact space.

— Sailihe Men

D

Diego Castillo

Note coming soon

Diego’s note is on the way.

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Applications open later this year.

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