The fellowship works to support frontline innovators who are making an impact for their community. In order to do that we provide communication , storytelling training, as well as coaching to enable them to increase their visibility.
We prepare fellows to lead from a place of lived and learned experience as they cultivate healthy communities.
PROBLEM:
Millions of individuals around the world are impacted by health inequities. Highly innovative and community-led solutions are not being used to address these deep inequities and overlooked challenges. Major health discussions lack community-based leadership and are dominated by the same health experts and donors.
WHAT HAPPENS IN THE FELLOWSHIP?
- 12-month intensive and individualized media and public speaking/narrative training
- Support in strengthening their advocacy plan
- 3-4 in-person convenings per year
- Individualized support to tackle organizational or systemic challenges
- Participation in high profile virtual and in person convenings
The Healthy Communities Fellowship helped me to harness the power of my voice, my personal narrative in a way that has elevated my organization to new heights. It helped to concretize our direction as an organization and root ourselves at the center of conversations about healing as a form of radical social justice.