During her fellowship year Naomi developed the patent-pending Enso Circular Economy Marketplace where organizations can sell their waste to compatible industries, reducing pollution while promoting environmental and financial sustainability. She's changing the "zero-sum game" mentality that pro-environment means anti-business with an enhanced triple bottom line that promotes advances in sustainability with its opportunity for profit. The most ardent capitalists become the biggest drivers of success, not only for this marketplace but for the environment.

Enso Green Procurement Marketplace

During her fellowship year Jalyn developed a series of sabbatical offerings to transform Black Activists' obligation to time, urgency and perfection while intentionally creating space for them to have a complete thought. She imagines a world where Black Activists have the opportunity to escape the chaos of daily life and return to their natural state of calm, clarity and focus. Repair, healing & restoration - the necessary ingredients to sustain impact in community work.

The Afrocentric Communiversity, LLC

During her fellowship year Morgan Vien developed the concept of stoke, and designed processes and experiences for individuals and communities to find their stoke, name the barriers in their way, and to begin making small changes toward a path of a more activated, engaged and stoked life. On this journey she has explored the ways our contributions to society might be more stoked-based rather than obligation-based and she has begun to imagine how the culture of school, work and the world changes when we have practices and systems that allow for everyone to live into their stoke and up to their potential. She has found that the powerful experience of being stoked is contagious and that one stoked human can inspire as many people as they can reach. When we contribute our unique brilliance and magic to the world, we give more, do better and light up the world around us. #staystoked

During her fellowship year Nita developed Kommit, a unique mentor-based community designed for Black athletes and their families that connects them with resources and mentors who provide support and guidance to ensure that when Black men enter college with a ball in one hand, they leave with a degree and viable career plan in the other; affirming their worth and value as more than an athlete in this world. Each year, thousands of young Black males gain access to college through the pathway of athletics. Yet, many miss out on valuable career prep opportunities and others never graduate. Nita imagines a world where every Black male can be and achieve anything in life.

Kommit Sports Group

During her fellowship year Susie explored Design for Belonging. We’ve all heard of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI); and while well-intentioned it is a land of quotas and metrics. It skips over the most important aspect of bringing diverse groups together -- solving problems. Every race, gender, and culture knows what it feels like to belong. Susie has created a tool kit to Design for Belonging that helps us notice the world around us and provides a framework for finding solutions for everything from group dynamics to product design. Equality begins when we’re all working towards the same goal. Belonging is what we’ve all been looking for.

Design for Belonging

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During her fellowship year Betty explored the power and simplicity of ritual. During these difficult times it’s often hard to find any order in the chaos. But in fact we’ve had the solution for thousands of years. Humans have used ritual to make sense of their surroundings and find intention and purpose when life provides none. Every religion and every culture since the beginning of time has put forward rituals. Betty has found the common language of these rituals and modernized the process of creating them. With Betty’s toolkit anyone can create a unique ritual for their own life and begin finding a way out of the chaos and into a more intentional life.

Resilience Through Ritual

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During his fellowship year Travis worked to change the harmful power dynamic present in international philanthropy and has created the Awareness Accord. Most philanthropic engagement follows the classic drama triangle, hero, victim, villain. This dynamic creates huge inefficiencies in the philanthropic process. The hero (donor) is always right. The victims must be happy for any assistance they are given. And there must always be a villain. In his 20 years of development experience Travis has seen countless resources wasted supporting this dynamic rather than solving the problems at hand. The Awareness Accord gives everyone a chance to change the interpersonal dynamic. Intentions are aligned and respect is given to all parties throughout the engagement process.

The Awareness Accord

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