Kindred Fellowship program Applications for 2022 Summer Program Opens March 1, 2022
“Imagine a world where mistrust, power-over dynamics, domination, and oppression no longer exist because children have never experienced them.”
– Teresa Graham Brett, JD
The Kindred Fellowship Program is excited to announce applications are being accepted for the 2022 Summer Cohort beginning March 1, 2022. The 2022 summer program runs from June 14 to July 31, 2022. Applications will be accepted until April 11, 2022. Apply here.
KFP’s unique mission is to guide students on an innovative educational journey that explores the systemic roots of social (in)justice in childhood through kindred activism: a theory of activism centering childhood in activism that is authentic, relational, and imaginative. The program has been featured on the Centers for Partnership Studies Leadership blog, the Rutger’s University’s Childism Institute blog, and in an ongoing series on Kindred Media.
Our 2022 KFP instructors include dedicated and dynamic professionals. We are overjoyed to welcome for 2022:
– Dieudonne Allo (South Africa), Global Leading Light Initiative
– Suzanne Zeedyk, PhD (Scotland), University of Dundee
– Wesley, Bugg, JD, (Georgia), of Reaching Our Brothers Everywhere, ROBE
– Four Arrows, (California), Fielding Graduate University
– Carey Sipp (South Carolina), Positive and Adverse Childhood Experiences, PACES
– Teresa Graham Brett, JD, (Arizona), Parenting for Social Change, and Parent Liberation Society
And we will be welcoming back our 2021 Cohort Graduates, Jenna Wes and Kendall Lobdell.
Facilitating the program will be the Kindred Fellowship co-founders, David Metler, Reshma Grewal, and Lisa Reagan.
Kindred fellows will be prepared and supported to launch their own innovative community action ideas and begin a life-long journey of maximizing their impact on social justice. Learn more about the 2022 instructor line-up here.
The 2022 Kindred Fellowship Program begins June 14th and ends July 31st. Each fellow is the recipient of a $750 award upon the completion of the program. Please save the date for the Kindred Fellowship Showcase on July 26, from 6 to 8 p.m. Eastern Time. Our Kindred Fellows will be sharing their insights from the KFP experience and their plan-of-action for community engagement integrating Kindred Activism. All are welcome to attend and support our fellows on their next steps. (Watch the 2021 KFP Showcase here.)
For a quarter century, Kindred World thought-leaders have been exploring the connections among human consciousness, human and nonhuman kin, and ecological systems. As awareness of “One Family, One World” expands, humanity connects more authentically with ourselves, our family, and our world, but also with our capacity to achieve lasting social justice. Kindred’s new connected story of human kinship is bringing forth the possibility for a new story of activism. Visit the Kindred Fellowship Program to learn more about our unique social justice education fellowship.
The Kindred Fellowship Program is excited to announce applications are being accepted for the 2022 Summer Cohort beginning March 1, 2022. The 2022 summer program runs from June 14 to July 31, 2022. Applications will be accepted until April 11, 2022. Apply here.
Our 2021 Cohorts on their KFP Experience:
“I am a past Kindred Fellowship student and I cannot say enough about what I learned from Kindred and all of those involved in making this program. Psychology student or not, this non-profit will teach all how to implement kindred activism into you lives, and many other lessons. I hope to continue my involvement with Kindred for years to come and hope to share its teachings with those around me!”
– Kendall Lobdell, University of Wisconsin, Madison
“I found Kindred World before I knew what I was looking for. I thought I was on my own in terms philosophy surrounding what the world needs as a way forward. Kindred is a revolutionary movement; one that centers not only childhood into the conversation around activism, but development, in all it’s forms, holistically, and throughout generations as an essential role in healing both ourselves and the world. It is the most transformative thing out there, and I was honored to have had the opportunity to serve as part of their inaugural Fellowship Program. During my time immersed in their philosophical and actionable program, I learned more about myself than I thought I would. In turn, I gained a deeper sense of clarity about where and how we can intervene, individually and collectively, in a way that prevents unnecessary cycles of trauma from repeating themselves, in our own lives, in our family systems and in the world. Thus, no longer just responding to suffering, but transforming it.
“Desmond Tutu said, ‘We need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream, and find out why they’re falling in.’ And that’s exactly what Kindred World is doing. And it’s revolutionary.”
– Jenna Wes, Kindred Fellowship Cohort 2021, Graduate Student, California Institute for Integral Studies