New York, NY—August 8, 2024 – Echoing Green, a leading organization in the field of social innovation, announced today 44 recipients selected for the 2024 cohort of the Echoing Green Fellowship. The newest Fellows work in 21 countries, and is one of the largest and most geographically diverse cohorts within the organization’s history.
Each Fellow will receive $80,000 in unrestricted funding during the 18-month Fellowship, one element of a multi-faceted support model that includes capital, capacity, and community support. Fellows will also join a lifelong community of innovative thinkers, strategic partners, and industry peers. The 2024 Fellows were selected through Echoing Green’s open call application and participatory grantmaking process, with 2,100 applications received for this cohort.
“From the planet’s hottest year yet, to ongoing global threats to democracy, to backsliding on hard-fought progress on racial equity — these are challenging times. We need bold solutions now for these and other significant challenges. These new Fellows are meeting this moment with a level of brilliance, care, and passion that gives me renewed hope for our collective future,” said Echoing Green President Cheryl L. Dorsey.
“When I look at the transformative work that they’ve launched across 21 countries, I am excited about the opportunities before them and the possibilities of what they can achieve for their communities and for the world,” Dorsey added.
The 2024 Echoing Green Fellows are:
- Abubakar Idris, Tech for Inclusion (Nigeria)
- Akonkwa Mubagwa, Winko Solar (Africa)
- Ali Kigongo, Global Asylum Seeker Human Rights Defenders Committee (Germany)
- Amisa Rashid Ahmed, Nivishe Foundation (Kenya)
- Ashley Williams, Clymb (United States)
- Ashu Martha Egbe, For Mom and Baby Foundation (Cameroon)
- Barnabas Nomo, Goliath Robotics (Ghana)
- Braulio Otavalo, OA7 (Ecuador)
- Brendah Nantongo, Veathari Ventures Uganda Limited (Uganda)
- Demetrius Lancaster, Joy Education Foundation (United States)
- Derwin Sisnett, Adaptive Commons (United States)
- Esperance Luvindao, OSAAT Africa Health Foundation (Namibia)
- Esther Wanjiru, Farmer Lifeline Technologies (Kenya)
- Gabriella Wong, accesSOS (United States)
- Godfrey Riddle, Civic Saint (United States)
- Helena Hassani, Boland Parwaz PTY LTD (Australia)
- Ida Mehezaa Solitoke, Baobaby (Togo)
- Ifeoma Nwakwesi Uddoh, Shecluded (Nigeria)
- Isaac Esene, GoodWorks (United States)
- Issel Masses Ferrer, Sembrando Sentido (Puerto Rico)
- Jacqueline Jennings, The Fireweed Institute (Canada)
- Jessica Ilunga, Ius Stella International (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- Joy Cooper, Culture Care (United States)
- Juliana Busasi, Tanzania Health and Medical Education Foundation (Tanzania)
- Kartik Sawhney, Global Network of Young Persons with Disabilities LLC (United States)
- Lea Kilenga Masamo Bey, Africa Sickle Cell Organisation (Kenya)
- Lina Ayenew, Education for Ethiopia (Ethiopia)
- Lydiah Kemunto Bosire, 8B Education Investments (Africa)
- Mamobo Ogoro, GORM (Ireland)
- Marie-Reine Seshie, Kola Market (Ghana)
- Maryanne Gichanga, AgriTech Analytics Ltd (Kenya)
- Mati Amin, SOLAx (Afghanistan)
- Naom Monari, BENA CARE LTD (Kenya)
- Nasser Ssenyondo, Silent Café (Uganda)
- Raju Kendre, Eklavya India Foundation (India)
- Siza Mukwedini, Matamba Film Labs for Women (Zimbabwe)
- Stanley Anigbogu, LightEd (Nigeria)
- Sylivia Kyomuhendo, Infants’ Health Foundation (Uganda)
- Tabitha Mpamira, Mutera Global Healing (East Africa)
- Taita Ngetich, Synnefa (Africa)
- Tatiana Blanco, Uru Uru (Bolivia)
- Utkarsh Saxena, Adalat AI (India)
- Virtue Oboro, Tiny Hearts Technology (Nigeria)
- Yura Sapi, Protectores de la Tierra (Colombia)
This cohort is the fourth and final cohort of Fellows supported by the Racial Equity Philanthropic Fund. Echoing Green launched its Racial Equity Philanthropic Fund in 2020 to build sustainable pathways of funding and support for next-generation leaders advancing racial equity globally. Since August 2020, the organization has made tremendous progress towards the Fund’s ambitious goals, having supported 120 new Fellows and awarded $12 million in follow-on investments.
Partners who have supported the Racial Equity Philanthropic Fund include leading supporters such as the Jerome L. Greene Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Skoll Foundation, Comcast NBCUniversal, the Citi Foundation, Goldman Sachs One Million Black Women, Barclays, BlackRock, The Allstate Foundation, Walmart Foundation, World Education Services Mariam Assefa Fund, Salesforce, Tiger Global Impact Ventures, The JPB Foundation, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Additional Fund supporters can be found here. Other leading supporters of Echoing Green include KKR, General Atlantic, and Ballmer Group.
To learn more about the Fellows, visit this page.
About Echoing Green
For 37 years, Echoing Green has been on the front lines of solving the world’s biggest problems, raising up the transformational leaders willing to speak truth to power and challenge the status quo. The organization finds emerging leaders with the best ideas for social innovation as early as possible and sets them on a path to lifelong impact. Echoing Green’s community of nearly 1,000 social innovators includes past Fellows such as First Lady Michelle Obama and the founders of Teach For America, Center for Black Innovation, BlocPower, and One Acre Fund. Built and refined over three decades, Echoing Green discovers tomorrow’s leaders today, and then funds, connects, and supports a new generation of social impact leaders.
