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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Wahleah Johns
Native Renewables’ Navajo Clean Energy Program is one of the first initiatives to bring solar energy to Native communities while training the first generation of Navajo solar installers.
Jonathan Lykes
Working directly with the House and Ballroom Community, the Keeping the Ballroom Community Alive Network (KBCAN) will build power, provide healing and train systems operators in trauma-informed, Black, queer and feminist approaches to care and policy-making.
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Chas Moore
Mr. Moore will use the fellowship to expand the priority policy goals of the Austin Justice Coalition (AJC). His proposed project builds off the success of AJC’s Better Before More campaign and will train community members on utilizing the city budgeting process and police union contract negotiations for policing reform.
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Saqib Bhatti
Project Description This project seeks to radically transform our municipal finance system by organizing the communities most impacted by public budget crises around provocative campaigns to renegotiate bad Wall Street deals. The project will engage unions and community organizations around the country to develop and implement strategic corporate social responsibility campaigns to stop banks from …
Margot Brandenburg
Project Description The focus of this project is to support the development of enterprise models in service of social and environmental change. It will specifically work with the staff of the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) to develop a business plan and prototype for Faircare.com, as well as with the Community Foundation of New Jersey …
Andrew Slack
Project Description Andrew Slack is an experienced performer and social organizer who started the Harry Potter Alliance (HPA) as a first step toward harnessing the energy of a popular story toward activism and civic engagement. Ready to take his unique model of fan activism to the next level, Imagine Better goes far beyond the Harry …
Jennifer Bailey
Project Description Ms. Bailey’s project is the creation of the Praxis Media Collaborative (PMC), an online community that leverages emerging technologies in the field of digital storytelling to elevate the work of communities — exploring the intersection of faith and social justice. PMC will connect secular justice organizations to faith-based groups working on similar issues. …
Mosi Makori
Project Description The project will engage communities disproportionately impacted by the prison industrial complex, including the wrongfully convicted, through community-based and participatory action research and training to address the dehumanizing results of mass incarceration, primarily of people of color. The problem, according to Mr. Makori, is that mass incarceration and wrongful convictions have become so …
Dara Nussbaum-Vazquez
Project Description Ms. Nussbaum-Vazquez will work with the Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative (BCDI) to design and launch an innovative business platform, with on- and off-line capabilities, that will build the infrastructure and test the potential for local businesses to capture procurement dollars leaking out of the Bronx. BCDI harnesses local assets and leverages the purchasing …
Bridgit Antoinette Evans
Project Description “Culture Changes Us” is a portfolio of knowledge-building tools and learning experiences – including a widely accessible social justice sector education campaign, an immersive learning retreat for movement leaders, and a ‘Next Gen’ culture change writers’ room focused on developing a new TV series – designed to dramatically accelerate the understanding and use …
Anurag Gupta
Project Description The project’s goal is to hack unconscious bias and disrupt racial inequalities. The project will develop an evidence-based online training called Mindfulness Based Cultural Competency™ (MBCC) that will create a measurable reduction in unconscious bias to eliminate health inequalities based on race/ethnicity. Three decades of robust research has shown that people of color …