Crafting Justice Across the Globe – Meet Our 2024 Fellows
Today, we welcome our 2024 Fellows, an outstanding group of 20 racial justice changemakers from across the world, to the AFRE community.
With roots and ties across five continents, this group of thinkers, doers and dreamers make up our sixth and first-ever global cohort. Each Fellow stood out among the more than 300 applicants to our 2024 programme for their courage, persistence, and curiosity about possibilities for liberated worlds. Their work too, across activism, community organising, law, the arts, mental health, urban planning, and digital rights, represents the diversity and depth of commitment across the global racial justice landscape.
“We’re thrilled to welcome these inspiring leaders—folks who have long answered the call to build a world beyond anti-Black racism—into our Fellow community, and to journey with them as they cultivate relationships with each other, and dream into new possibilities for their individual and collective work,” says Nigel Richard, AFRE’s senior programme director.
Beginning in September, our new Fellows will embark on a collective journey that will see them deepen their leadership, foster practices for their longevity in the work of justice, grapple with the global complexities of race, and experiment with liberatory ideas.
Upon concluding the programme, they will join our Senior Fellow community of 105 Fellows who continue to work to challenge the structures that function across borders to sustain anti-Black racism, as well as the Global Atlantic Fellows’ community, which connects changemakers across the seven Atlantic Fellows programmes throughout the world.
The Fellowship Experience lies at the heart of AFRE’s work to cultivate spaces where changemakers come together to explore, imagine, experiment and build long-term efforts toward a world beyond anti-Black racism, work that is shaped by our roots in South Africa and the United States, and includes narrative projects—including our magazine Moya and podcast Race Beyond Borders—as well as emergent innovation spaces.
"Throughout our work, AFRE is sensitive to the painful ruptures created by our era’s intersecting crises as well as the unexpected possibilities nestled within them, opportunities to author new terms for the flourishing of Black life,” says AFRE Executive Director Sebabatso Manoeli-Lesame. “We look forward to supporting our outstanding 2024 Fellows as they work in pursuit of that new world that wants to be born.”
Meet the 2024 Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity
