NCF Fellows are bold leaders with visionary ideas to create a more just, vibrant, sustainable, and democratic society. Each Fellow will receive up to $150,000 and 18 months to turn an inspired idea in the field of social justice into a reality.
Meet Our 2021-2022 Fellows!
Ewune Ewane
Ewune Ewane will use the Fellowship to grow and scale Minds Over Melanin, an online community mental health platform. Ewune formulated the community as a space to transform psychology to provide effective, culturally competent care to restore justice within Black, Indigenous, and communities of color medically traumatized and marginalized by systemic racism and cultural bias in psychological diagnosis, treatment, and education.
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Bree Jones
Bree Jones founded Parity in March 2018 to increase affordable housing opportunities with communities in West Baltimore who have historically faced housing discrimination and environmental racism. Parity buys vacant and distressed properties, revitalizes them using green building practices, and creates pathways for communities to purchase homes at an affordable rate.
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Imara Jones
Imara Jones is an award-winning journalist and creator of TransLash, a journalism and narrative change project that centers Black trans stories as a strategy to end cultural hostility. It promotes inclusion and acceptance by embedding new perspectives of Black trans people into public consciousness.
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