Hello, All:

We hope you had a pleasant week!

Be Advised: If you’ve sent me an email that didn’t receive a response within the calendar week, resend. We have a continual issue with Gmail, specifically email chains. Gmail doesn’t always move a response email to the top of the inbox.

• Our next Creative Career Focus Meeting will be Feb. 21, 2025. Register here. We strongly encourage you to attend.

• Be a sure to try AI Art Therapy Fridays with 34 Gallery Art Advisor Mind Soul Meditations on HeyPeers! Register here.

— M.

Administrative Updates

• The Employment & Internship/Fellowship databases will begin updating on March 1st with 2nd quarter listings. Anyone looking for specific positions or industry searches, email us within the coming week.

• The Hope Open Call is currently low on submissions, which is reflective of the state of the world at the moment. If any staff members have art, photography, or poetry to contribute, send directly to: submissions@34gallery.org

• Whenever possible, like and comment on the social media posts. Some of our current artists are in dire situations and could use the support.

Needed Content

• In March, Simuka Africa will enter its 20th year of operation. General “Celebrating 20 Years” graphics and video will be needed throughout 2026. Any additional staff with time in their schedule to work on this let us know.

Food for Thought

The United Nations System

• The United Nations Independent International Scientific Panel on AI

• The India–AI Impact Summit 2026 

• UN Rights Chief: AI must be based on inclusivity, accountability and global standards

• MIT Study: AI chatbots provide less-accurate information to vulnerable users

AI Tools - Basics

Many industries now expect familiarity with at least 3 of these. If the hyperlinks are not working, simply use Google to find their main websites:

Chatbots & Writing:

• ChatGPT: Best for general tasks, ideas, and text generation.

• Claude: Excellent for long text analysis and writing.

• Gemini: Strong for web-connected research.

• Grammarly: AI-powered grammar and tone correction.

• Quillbot: Paraphrasing and grammar checking.

• CopyAI: Marketing copy generation.

  Image & Design:

  • Canva Magic Design: AI design tools for images and presentations.

  • Stable Diffusion: Open-source image generation.

  • Cloud Vision AI: Image detection and labeling (first 1,000 units free).

  Productivity & Research:

  • Perplexity AI: Conversational search engine for research.

  • Notion AI: Task management and text generation.

  • ChatPDF: Interact with PDF documents.

  • Otter.ai: Meeting transcription and summaries.

  • Fireflies.ai: Meeting recorder and assistant.

  Audio & Video:

  • ElevenLabs: High-quality voice generation.

  • Google Vids: AI-powered video editing.

  Development & Technical:

  • Google AI Studio: Free API access for code generation, text-to-speech, and image generation.

  • Stability Matrix: Multi-Platform Package Manager and Inference UI for AI Image Generation.

Opportunities

Career Tip: Negative Self-Talk is the primary reason for anxiety and poor performance during interviews and annual work reviews. Flip the script on that internal dialogue for 2026.

I. Staff-led Opportunity: Otjiwa Immersive Volunteering Program — For additional information on this opportunity, contact 34 Gallery Artist & Staff Member Vincenzo Cohen.

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• UN Careers - the primary UN career hub

• UNJOBNET - daily UN & UN Affiliate job listing updates

• UNJOBNET: Remote Positions

• The Aspire Leaders Program

• Mountain Book Competition

• Mozilla: Call for Proposals

•  Botanical Artist in Residence program

• The Fundación Botín offers six scholarships for artists of any nationality with an expected duration of nine months and an endowment of 23,000 euros each.

• QS ImpACT Awards 2026

• University of Cambridge Digital Minds Fellowship 2026 

• Presidential African Youth in Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Competition 2026 

• African Scholarship Programme 2027 at the Nordic Africa Institute

•  UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Internship

•  2 fully funded PhD positions in Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University

• The Policy Center for the New South (PCNS) is hiring for multiple Junior Professional (JPP) positions in Rabat, Morocco.

• Commonwealth Distance Learning Scholarships

• Red Bull Graduate Programme

• Senior Manager Social Media – Sesame Workshop

• Google DeepMind Research Ready AI Internship – University of York

• Smithsonian Art History Internship (Paid)

• Technologist-in-Residence Foreign Policy Fellowship

• NIAS Individual Research Fellowship

• Global Health Corps Leadership Accelerator

• Global Diplomacy Initiative UNITAR Fellowship – New York

• AFRIKA KOMMT! Fellowship (Germany Corporate Fellowship)

• African Union Youth Capacity Building Programme (Fully Funded)

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Final Thoughts

This email contains quite a bit of information this week and is being sent out late for this reason. We hope you find the contents useful in your endeavors as you conclude your second month of Q1 2026 Service.

May hope, peace & unity be with you.