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The Atlantic Philanthropies and Columbia University recently announced the creation of the Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity, a ten-year, $60 million fellowship program that will empower activists, writers, artists, and others fighting anti-Black racism in the United States or South Africa.

The program, which will be based at Columbia, will support up to thirty-five people in these countries each year.

The program is the latest in an interconnected set of fellowship programs from Atlantic Philanthropies that are designed to “advance fairer, healthier, more inclusive societies.”

The Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity will be directed by Kavitha Mediratta, who will step down as chief strategy adviser at Atlantic Philanthropies this winter to assume her new role.

Alondra Nelson, Columbia’s dean of social science and a sociology professor, will serve as the lead faculty partner on the program.

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