The Advocacy and Organizing Fellowship is a year-long stipended leadership development cohort for artivists, creative workers, and emerging cultural leaders to sharpen their community organizing capacity and grow their advocacy stills for a more equitable and inclusive creative sector.

Each fellow focuses their year on a cultural policy or creative community issue they are passionate about changing through community organizing and political advocacy. They will develop an advocacy campaign plan to address their issue through research, training, and peer feedback. Upon conclusion of the program, the fellows will present their issues and creative solutions developed during their fellowship to bring sustainable change to their issue.

Fellows attend bi-monthly sessions as a cohort to learn from experienced organizers, artist leaders, and organizational advocates. Fellows receive technical and financial support to plan community events that promote their projects and opportunities to engage with community leaders and partners regarding their issues.

The Fellowship is made possible thanks to a grant from the Barr Foundation.