Mellon Graduate Fellows pursue projects in community-engaged scholarship. These projects resonate with graduate students’ personal and scholarly interests and are grounded in a sustained collaboration with a community partner. Graduate Fellows are provided a stipend and budget for their projects that includes compensation for community partners, additional mentors, travel, and supplies.
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The Immigrant Youth Empowerment Forum (Ana María López Caldwell)
Louisiana Environmental Action Network (Chloe Tucker)
Benin Republic Pavilion (Sarah Reynolds)
Maya Scripta (Rubén Morales Forte)
Per(Sister): Incarcerated Women of Louisiana (Megan Flattley)
Digital Narrative Therapy with Latinx Youth (Puentes NOLA & Jenn Miller Scarnato)
Science in Yourba (Taofeeq Adebayo)
Building Neighborhood Places: A Collaborative Reflection on the Transformation of the Neighborhood Story Project Workshop in the 7th Ward of New Orleans (Neighborhood Story Project & Ari King)
Black Community USA/BRAZIL (Sedrick Miles)
Cultivating New Orleans’ Performance Communities with Beaubourg (The Beaubourg Theatre & Chris Givens)
Taste of Africa (Ashe Cultural Arts Center, Tulane African Student Association, and D. Caleb Smith)
Developing a Renter’s Guide to Low Income Housing Tax Credits (Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative & Theo Hilton)
Dancership Program (Dance Quater & April Goltz)
Parents for Juvenile Justice (Ubuntu Village & Genesis Calderon)