As a Seeds of Power Fellow, I was able to meet and work alongside individuals who are taking their niche backgrounds and knowledge in social work, user experience, and content creation and begin to articulate and plan steps towards a career in tech that uplifts those traditionally underrepresented and often without access to the field.
Connie Flores, Seeds of Power Fellow 2020
Step into your power as a Redesigner for Justice™ through the Seeds of Power Fellowship!
The Seeds of Power (SOP) Fellowship is an 8-month commitment that guides young leaders to grow their cultural competency, understand structures of power and inequity through systems-thinking, and advance our award-winning Equity-Centered Community Design™️ framework from awareness to action.
SOP Fellows aid in facilitating educational experiences and telling the authentic stories of BIPOC individuals through content development that shines a spotlight on issues of systems of inequity and unifies living experts to co-design transformational approaches to achieving equity.
Application closed for the 2024-2025 Cohort.
Application Closed September 13, 2024 | 2024-2025 Fellowship Began October 7, 2024
FELLOWS RECEIVE:
$25/hour for up to 20 hrs per week
Access to Adobe Creative Suite
Mental Health Support
Technology Stipend
Invitation to CRXLAB’s youth network for personal and professional development opportunities
2024-2025 APPLICANTS MUST:
Identify as Black and/or Latino/a/x/e
Be between the ages of 18-26 on the fellowship start date
Reside in St. Louis, MO or Chicago, IL
2024-2025 SOP Fellows
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Cameron Thompson
(She/Her)
Equity Designer for the Black Diaspora, Women’s Rights, Mental Health, People with Disabilities
Design Ally for LGBTQIA+ Rights, Survivors of Relationship and Sexual Violence, Latino/a/x/e Rights, Youth -
Kai Mora Peñaloza
(He/El)
Equity Designer for Immigrant and Undocumented citizens, Latinx Community, LGBT+ Rights, Mental Health, Youth
Design Ally for the Black Diaspora, Survivors of Domestic and Sexual Abuse, Women's Rights
Competency Building.
As a Seeds of Power Fellow you will grow your cultural and racially historical competency, personal humility, and civic/public leadership capacity, knowledge, and opportunities. In addition, you will increase your skills and confidence to lead, facilitate, create content, and provide philanthropy based on equity, inclusion, and redesigning systems.
Systems Thinking + Action.
Increase skills to assess and engage with systemic issues of inequity and power to make recommendations that center living expertise and shift power to historically underinvested communities.
Gaining 21st-Century Skills.
You will gain the skill sets necessary to become Redesigners for Justice™ through the program’s focus on creative problem solving, cultural history and healing, civic leadership, and ownership. As a Seeds of Power fellow, you will develop 21st-century skills of creativity, curiosity, critical thinking, problem solving, leadership, cultural awareness, civic literacy, and more.
Growth Opportunities.
Increase opportunities for further personal and professional development through partnerships with Creative Reaction Lab’s network.
