2022 Mentor for Harvard University’s Climate Justice Design Fellowship Program
I have the honor as serving as one of Dominique Thomas' mentors for the Harvard University's Climate Justice Design Fellowship program. Dominique Thomas is a grassroots organizer, Afrofuturist, trainer and researcher based in Harlem, New York. Dominique's theory of change is creating the material conditions for Black communities to build power across all levels and strategize to imagine and create worlds for her community outside of all systems of oppression. This is accomplished by awakening an organizing orientation to inspire and empower Black people to construct their own Afrofuture rooted in abolition and Black Feminist Thought. Dominique's current work focuses on training organizers to use different evidence-based insights to be more effective at building transformational relationships and developing just and equitable campaigns. Dominique believes relationships are essential to successful base-building and being strategic requires organizing from the intersections of climate and other social movements. In her free time, Dominique enjoys reading Black feminist writings and Octavia Butler, running along the Hudson River and cooking vegan meals.
The Climate Justice Design Fellowship is for highly motivated environmental advocates and public servants of any level of seniority focused on equity and justice and well connected with their communities. Fellows must be able to represent the needs of vulnerable environmental justice communities. The first fellowship cohort activities will run from June - December of 2022. The mission of the Climate Justice Design Fellowship program is to empower environmental justice advocates and public servants from around the United States to design and build accessible data tools that help them promote equity and justice in their communities.
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