{"id":23117,"date":"2023-04-12T19:42:32","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T19:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uaaglobal.com\/icymi-open-society-foundations-announces-2023-puerto-rico-youth-fellows\/"},"modified":"2023-04-12T19:42:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T19:42:32","slug":"icymi-open-society-foundations-announces-2023-puerto-rico-youth-fellows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uaaglobal.com\/icymi-open-society-foundations-announces-2023-puerto-rico-youth-fellows\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Open Society Foundations announces 2023 Puerto Rico Youth Fellows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"col-md-12 panel-display mccoppin clearfix \">\n<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 radix-layouts-column2 panel-panel\">\n<div class=\"panel-panel-inner content\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-dynamic-token-fieldnode-gia-submitted-by field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item\">\n<div class=\"field--name-node-submitted-by\">Submitted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.giarts.org\/blog\/Jaime%20Sharp\">Jaime Sharp<\/a> on April 12, 2023<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-dynamic-token-fieldnode-body field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item\">\n<p>From the Philanthropy News Digest: The Open Society Foundations has announced the 2023 recipients of its Puerto Rico Youth Fellowships.<\/p>\n<p>Launched in 2018, the program supports Puerto Rican leaders between the ages of 21 and 35 working to elevate climate justice and food sovereignty, promote human rights, and advance decolonization efforts in Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>The third cohort of eight fellows will each receive $45,000 over 18 months to work full-time on their projects, which include teaching young people about food sovereignty, community farming, archival initiatives aimed at documenting the histories of the archipelago, strengthening support for trans and nonbinary people, and launching an art project around menstrual and HIV awareness.<\/p>\n<p><!--break--><\/p>\n<p>\nRecipients include Dana Esquil\u00edn Rosario (she\/her\/he), who will work on La Brecha, a project offering healing tools and resources for communities and relatives of incarcerated people; Nicol\u00e1s X. G\u00f3mez And\u00fajar (he\/him), who will facilitate the self-management of an inclusive, educational, and cooperative space through the Culebra Fishing Association to address the problems of the fishermen on the island; Carlo Andr\u00e9 (they\/she, him\/us), who will develop the queer Barrioization cultural platform and help build the community archive of the town of Manat\u00ed, in collaboration with the Jos\u00e9 S. Alegr\u00eda Cultural Center; Yira M. Rodr\u00edguez Mart\u00ednez (she\/her), who will participate in the development of La Aldea\u2014an initiative that works to preserve and rescue disused spaces in Ponce\u2014from an agroecological, artistic, and educational perspective; Jade M. Algar\u00edn Corcino (they, them), who will organize the farming communities of Vieques, Puerto Rico, and Santa Cruz, Virgin Islands, to create an alliance that reflects the shared colonial, cultural, and archeological histories of the two island communities and exchange knowledge to build an authentic Caribbean food system; Lale Namerrow Pastor (they\/he), who will work on the Transmasc Network of Puerto Rico, an initiative that proposes to develop links between trans and non-binary people whose gender identity or expression is male; Stephanie Monserrate Torres (she), who will create spaces on the Guakia farm for community empowerment and produce agroecological food with agroforestry practices; and L\u2019orangelis Thomas Negr\u00f3n (she\/they), who will work on Matril\u00edneo, a project focused on menstrual and HIV awareness, through art, documentation, and narrative justice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year, we have chosen eight fellows that are leading critical projects across Puerto Rico, including Vieques and Culebra,\u201d said Karina Claudio Betancourt, outgoing director of OSF\u2019s Puerto Rico Project. \u201cTheir innovation and creativity are what Puerto Rico needs right now to continue to inspire generations to stay on the island and fight for our resources and for our fundamental right to self-determination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/philanthropynewsdigest.org\/news\/open-society-foundations-announces-2023-puerto-rico-youth-fellows\">Learn more about the program and fellows here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \/.mccoppin --><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted by Jaime Sharp on April 12, 2023 From the Philanthropy News Digest: The Open Society Foundations has announced the 2023 recipients of its Puerto Rico Youth Fellowships. 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