MATHANGI SWAMINATHAN
Mathangi Swaminathan, from Cohort 4 , was selected to the 2023 Echoing Green Fellowship class from a pool of nearly 1,900 applicants. Echoing Green accelerates the work of some of the world’s best and brightest social innovators. Mathangi is founder and operations director at Parity Lab, an accelerator for community-led grassroots organizations that work to prevent or address violence against women and girls.
DR. DENICIA (NEESH) CARLAY
Cohort 6 alumna Dr. Denicia (Neesh) Carlay, Village is Possible co-founder and co-CEO as well as co-creator of our National Leadership Circle, presented at the Kempe Conference on intersectional professionals and how their lived experience can transform child welfare. Specializing in embodied, healing- centered engagement, she is also currently developing a blueprint to holistically support youth and young adults impacted by sex trafficking.
SONYA SONI
Sonya Soni, Director of the Prison & Justice Writing Program at PEN America and vital member of Cohort 4 , published an article, “We Must Stop the School-to-Prison Pipeline” in the August 2023 edition of The Progressive magazine. In her writing, Sonya discusses how young people of color are disproportionately at risk of entering the prison system and how the current system punishes families and individuals of color. Sonya is also a 2024 fellow at the Kweli Literary Fellowship, a mentorship program for emerging writers of color in New York.
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2023 Annual Report
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