Meet Our Fellows

Executive Director, Castanea Fellowship

Assistant Federal Public Defender, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Western District of Texas

Journalist and Podcaster, New Frame

CEO, Activate Leadership

Incoming Director, Black Family Economic Mobility, Ballmer Group

Director, Democratic Practice Program - U.S. & Racial Justice Initiative, Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Deputy Director, Racial Justice Center, Service Employees International Union (SEIU)

National Director, Showing Up for Racial Justice

Creative Director, Heal the Hood Project

Director, North Carolina’s Black Leadership and Organizing Collective

Managing Director, Sugar Bean Pictures

Founder & Director, Zizi kaNojaholo Consulting

Research and Development Director, Qhama SHI

Director and Founding Partner, Lemon Pebble Architects and Urban Designers

Leadership Consultant and Environmental Planner

Executive Director, Aspen Institute’s Religion & Society Program

Founder and CEO, Sasopsbiz Foundation

Co-Director, Beneficial Technologies

Director and Curator, Smithsonian National Museum of American History

Founder, Including Society

Director of Programming and Artistic Director,
Folger Theatre

Managing Director, Center for Law, Information and Creativity at Northeastern University

Co-Founder, Liberation Ventures

Policy Officer, European Union Delegation to South Africa

Executive Director,
Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative

Lecturer,
University of KwaZulu-Natal

Managing Director,
Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions

Director, Greatmore Studios

Executive Director,
Tshepiso Mokoena Foundation

Executive Director,
The Hidden Genius Project

Chief Operating Officer,
Common Future

Operations and Finance Manager, Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ)

Co-Founder,
Queer Feminist Film Festival

Associate Research Supervisor; Postgraduate Studies, AFDA

Executive Director,
American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania

Executive Director,
Power Shift Network

Manager - Sustainability Programmes, Sibanye - Stillwater

Chairperson, PHA Food & Farming Campaign

Broadcast Journalist & Gender Rights Activist

President & CEO, SA2020

Co-Founder, The Hustlers Guild and Senior Director of Programs, Partnerships & Strategy, Honored

Former Commissioner, South African Competition Commission

Founder & Senior Pastor, Renewal Worship Center, and Founder & CEO, Green the Church

Writer, Activist, and Performing Artist

Senior Managing Director, Juvenile Law Center

Legal Policy Advisor, Independent Schools of Southern Africa

Minister, Activist and Scholar

Leader and Organiser, BlackSeed

Executive Director, My Vote Counts

Senior Researcher, Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA)

Founder and President, United Domestic Workers of South Africa (UDWOSA)

Public Interest Lawyer, Western Cape Department of Economic Development

Chief Advancement Officer, Tides Advocacy

Senior Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand

Former General Secretary, Social Justice Coalition

Advocacy Director, New York State Alliance for Quality Education

Accountant, Academic, Activist and Independent Analyst

Co-Founder, Sunshine Cinema

Principal, Decolonizing Wealth Project

Social Impact Leader

National Director, Journey for Justice Alliance

Principal, Odara Solutions

Dialogue Practitioner

Advisor, Betsy Hodges LLC and the 47th Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota

Vice President of Global Strategic Community Impact, Axon

Founding Director, Creative Academy

Executive Director, Mayor’s Office of Community Empowerment & Opportunity, City of Philadelphia

Head of Municipal Sustainability, South African Local Government Association (SALGA)

Water Resources Manager and Aquatic Ecologist 

Founding Executive Director, Amandla.mobi

National Coordinator, Rural Democracy Trust

Founder and Principal Consultant, Needle Strategies LLC

Director of Research & Policy, Coworker and Co-Founder, Startups & Society Initiative

Inclusion Strategy Manager EMEA, Netflix

Executive Director, Equality Collective

Community Organizer and Former Senior Pastor of Holman United Methodist Church

Co-Founder & Project Director, Paralegal Pathways Initiative at Columbia Law School

Award-winning Documentary Filmmaker and Educator

Founder & Managing Director, Axle Impact Studio

Coach, Facilitator, Storyteller, Obenewa Amponsah & Associates

Lecturer, University of Cape Town

Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles

Principal, Black Futures Lab

National Field Secretary, Movement for Black Lives

Social Responsibility and Funding Officer, AFDA (The School of Creative Economies)

Energy Policy Research Associate, Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (City University of New York)

Director & Co-Creator, Coloured Mentality

Community Lawyer & Organiser

Executive Director, People’s Advocacy Institute

Founder & Director, UCU Consulting

Head of the Department of Jurisprudence & Associate Professor, University of Pretoria

Composer and Installation Artist

President, The Precedential Group

Writer, Researcher & Strategist, Kaepernick Endeavors

Director of Housing, PolicyLink

President & CEO Community Coalition

President, Color of Change

Sales Executive, NMI DSM

Founder, Southern Soul Wellness

Chief Executive Officer, AmeriCorps

Co-Creator, Coloured Mentality

Founding Executive Director, Equity and Transformation (EAT)

PhD Candidate, University of Western Cape