| |
|
|
|
SEARCH THE CSI SITE
|
|
With this $25,000 award, fellows bring their time and experience to bear on the question of transforming the social, political and economic structures that allow racial inequities to persist across the country. This award offers tested leaders resources to develop policy ideas and strategies to advance this vital work.
CURRENT SENIOR FELLOWS
Scott Douglas is executive director of Greater Birmingham Ministries, a multi-racial interfaith organization that combines direct services, advocacy, and organizing to aid and empower low-income communities. Under Scott’s leadership, GBM has worked on multiple issues concerning governance, including campaign fi nance reform and state constitutional reform.
Scott’s Senior Fellowship project will use stimulus funding as an entry point to develop and begin to test models of participatory budgeting that engage grassroots leaders and progressive academics in setting public spending priorities.
Gail Small is the founder and executive director of Native Action, a multi-issue organization on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. One of the first non-profits based on an Indian Reservation, Native Action's work has led to national precedents in federal banking law, environmental policy, Indian voting rights, and youth law. It has also resulted in getting the first bank, the first public high school and the first Chamber of Commerce on the Reservation. Cutting-edge tribal laws drafted by Native Action and successfully enacted include: a tribal burial law that reclaims traditional burial rites; a tribal sexual assault law; a domestic violence code; and a tribal Uniform Commercial Code to facilitate small business development that now has reached over $12 million in Reservation-lending. Nurturing long-term alliances with non-Indian ranchers, labor unions, universities, non-partisan political leaders, and Tribes is a key to Native Action's success.
Gail received an Alston Bannerman Sabbatical Fellowship in 1990, and in 2009, she was awarded one of the first Alston Bannerman Senior Fellowships. Her Senior Fellowship project will craft policies that address the global climate crisis through collective models of ownership that leave fossil fuels in the ground and develop alternative energy sources.
Saru Jayaraman is co-founder of Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC), an organization created in the aftermath of 9-11 to support restaurant workers displaced from the World Trade Center. ROC grew to organize workers and employers citywide to improve conditions in individual workplaces and industry-wide. Saru is now co-director of ROC United, an alliance of restaurant workers’ organizations in multiple cities.
Saru’s Senior Fellowship Project will develop a blueprint for effective transnational labor organizing that can result in the development of international labor standards
|
