Innovative Cultural Advocacy Fellowship

The Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, founded the Innovative Cultural Advocay Fellowship in 2014 with the goal of  training mid-career professionals of color for public leadership and management of cultural institutions and nonprofit arts organizations in New York City and across the nation. A noted pioneering initiative in arts advocacy and cultural equity, the ICA Fellowship has been an impetus for radical change in New York City. Now, in its 8th cycle, the Fellowship seeks to involve and increase the number of emerging leaders of color in cultural arts, public policy, and arts advocacy.

ICA Fellow-participants engage through an in-depth series of collaborative exchanges, and assignments that nurture an  understanding of historical contexts for the field of cultural arts public policy, offer innovative and progressive thinking, and provide opportunities to meet notable leaders in the field who highlight and utilize language and framework models that address the existing inequity within cultural arts public policy.

Criteria:

30 to 40-year-old arts-based professionals from historically marginalized communities of color; must be endorsed by a current or recent employer or mentor; and can commit to attend all monthly gatherings

Fellows gain the following:

- Effective strategies firmly rooted in social justice, arts advocacy, and cultural equity models from the Civil Rights era to more recent progressive grassroots arts movements
- Access to executive level arts professionals through monthly sessions and cultural site visits
- Certification and a generous stipend of $750 for successful program completion 

Fellows engage with topics such as:

Frameworks in Historical Cultural Activism; Public Arts, Fiscal Equity: A Tale of Two Arts Cities; Building Institutions in Our Own Image, among othershe Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, founded the Innovative Cultural Advocay Fellowship in 2014 with the goal of  training mid-career professionals of color for public leadership and management of cultural institutions and nonprofit arts organizations in New York City and across the nation. A noted pioneering initiative in arts advocacy and cultural equity, the ICA Fellowship has been an impetus for radical change in New York City. Now, in its 8th cycle, the Fellowship seeks to involve and increase the number of emerging leaders of color in cultural arts, public policy, and arts advocacy.

ICA Fellow-participants engage through an in-depth series of collaborative exchanges, and assignments that nurture an  understanding of historical contexts for the field of cultural arts public policy, offer innovative and progressive thinking, and provide opportunities to meet notable leaders in the field who highlight and utilize language and framework models that address the existing inequity within cultural arts public policy.