Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity Program 2025 (up to $10,000) – YOA

Deadline: March 31, 2025

Applications are open for the Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity Program 2025. The results of anti-Black racism have created a violent and fragmented world with deeply entrenched patterns of domination. In response, the battle for racial justice usually leaves leaders burnt out, remoted, and, due to the tyranny of the pressing, with out the time and area to have interaction their imaginations past downside-fixing.

The 12-month Fellowship Experience invites changemakers all through the Black diaspora and the broader world right into a collective journey of deepening their management, grappling with the worldwide complexities of race, and unlocking their creativity for social change.

They hope by the top of the Fellowship every Fellow has:

• Gained perception into advanced histories of race, engaged their imaginations about its potential futures and grappled with the current world forces that perpetuate white supremacy and anti-Black racism.
• Developed private methods and routines to strengthen their lengthy-time period endurance within the struggle to fight anti-Black racism.
• Supported the formation of significant and strong lifelong relationships.
• Articulated their subsequent concept for affect and acted on their imaginative and prescient.

Topics they Explore

• Racemaking and racialisation
• Narrative energy and technique
• Global forces of anti-Black racism
• The futures of race
• Domination and racial capitalism
• Somatic and wellness practices
• Collective and interpersonal management competencies
• Personal idea of change

Benefits

AFRE helps Fellows’ participation and management improvement by way of:

• Round-trip journey, lodging, meals, and floor transportation prices for all in-particular person convenings.
• Fellows might entry up to $10,000 USD to help their management improvement and incidental prices of attending in-particular person programming.
• Family care funding for Fellows supporting kids, dependents, and relations.
• Up to six and half hours of management teaching classes.

Eligibility

• Have a minimal of 5 years {of professional} expertise in racial fairness or associated subject.
• Can commit to totally taking part in all programming classes together with a 2-week residency in South Africa and weeklong in-particular person convening (Location TBD).
• Will be residing in Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, Europe, or the SWANA area throughout digital programming (September 2025, October 2025, and February 2026).
• Will not be taking part in one other Fellowship programme throughout the programming dates.
• Highly proficient in spoken and written English.
• Kindly word that there aren’t any tutorial {qualifications} required.

Selection Criteria

Ideal candidates will reveal and embody a spread of the traits listed under:

• Open: Are keen to study and know extra about others and the world.
• Aware: Are acutely aware of themselves and awake to the world round them.
• Intentional: Are considerate and aware of their actions. 
• Aspiring: Can see potentialities past the present actuality.
• Caring: Can relate to and care about others’ experiences.
• Relational: Are dedicated to the nicely-being and well being of others.
• Bold: Has demonstrated a willingness to take dangers.
• Persistent: Has persevered by way of challenges.

Application

Applications open till 18:59 CAT on March 31, 2025. Late functions is not going to be thought of.

Apply here or nominate a candidate here

For extra info, go to Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity.