As a Seeds of Power Fellow, I was able to meet and work alongside individuals who are taking their niche backgrounds and knowledge in social work, user experience, and content creation and begin to articulate and plan steps towards a career in tech that uplifts those traditionally underrepresented and often without access to the field.

Connie Flores, Seeds of Power Fellow 2020

Take the next step in the Redesigner for Justice™ movement! Continue building your leadership skills and challenging inequities through Seeds of Power!

The Seeds of Power Fellowship Program (SOP) is an 8-month commitment that trains youth to grow a skill set and expand knowledge and experience in facilitation of Equity-Centered Community Design™️, or content development in order to assess issues of systemic inequity to identify and co-create concrete opportunities for change.

Additionally, SOP Fellows will develop other areas such as growing their cultural and racially historical competency, systems-thinking to understand structures of power and inequity, and using their skillset to translate work to action. Opportunities for skill-building and program involvement will evolve with each year of participant engagement to deepen their understanding and capacity to be the Redesigners for Justice that we need.

Applications are closed for the 2023 program year.

As a Fellow you’ll receive:

Paid $25/hour for contract work
Adobe Creative Suite access (selected participants only)
Mental Health Support
Technology Stipend
Invitation to join Creative Reaction Lab’s youth network for further personal and professional development opportunities

You should apply if:

To be eligible to participate in the Seeds of Power Fellowship Program, a person must:
- Identify as Black and/or Latino/a/x/e

Meet age requirements for the desired track:

Learning & Facilitation: ages 18-26
Media & Content Development: ages 18- 26

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Meet the 2023-2024 Fellows

Amos Jaimes

(He/Him)
Equity Designer for Latina/ae/o/e/x communities, LGBTQIA+ Rights, and Youth
Design Ally for Black, Indigenous, Undocumented Families and Survivors of Family Violence
Ugochi Chinemere

(She/Her/Hers)
Equity Designer for Black Diaspora, Immigrant and Undocumented communities, Survivors of Sexual Violence, Youth
Design Ally for LGBTQIA+ Rights, Indigenous and Latina/ae/o/e/x communities
Michel Mora Peñaloza

(She/Her/Hers)
Equity Designer for Latina/ae/o/e/x communities, survivors of sexual violence, and undocumented families.
Design Ally for LGBTQIA+ rights, black and Indigenous families

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**Applications open July 1st!**

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Competency Building.

As a Seeds of Power Fellow you will grow your cultural and racially historical competency, personal humility, and civic/public leadership capacity, knowledge, and opportunities. In addition, you will increase your skills and confidence to lead, facilitate, create content, and provide philanthropy based on equity, inclusion, and redesigning systems.

Systems Thinking + Action.

Increase skills to assess and engage with systemic issues of inequity and power to make recommendations that center living expertise and shift power to historically underinvested communities.

Gaining 21st-Century Skills.

You will gain the skill sets necessary to become Redesigners for Justice™ through the program’s focus on creative problem solving, cultural history and healing, civic leadership, and ownership. As a Seeds of Power fellow, you will develop 21st-century skills of creativity, curiosity, critical thinking, problem solving, leadership, cultural awareness, civic literacy, and more.