Team Category: 2020 Creative Change Innovation Fellows
2020 Creative Change Innovation Fellowship
The Opportunity Agenda’s Creative Change Innovation Fellowship is an invitation-only pilot program intended to support a cohort of leading-edge storytellers during a six-month period (September 2020 – February 2021) as they create, imagine, and empower us with what’s possible.
In this moment of crisis for racial justice, public health, the economy, and our body politic, The Opportunity Agenda is grateful to be able to partner with artists and cultural strategists to help envision a new beginning for inclusivity, healing, and justice in our democracy. We believe that creative vision is essential to helping us rise up and become the country we aspire to be.
The fellowship aims to give each artist/cultural strategist an opportunity to 1) focus their efforts on projects that support an affirmative, creative vision for a more inclusive, just democracy and 2) gather field members to collaborate on, discuss and/or amplify their work.
Meet the Fellows
Sage Crump
Artist, Culture Strategist, and FacilitatorSage Crump is an artist, culture strategist, and facilitator who expands and deepens the work of cultural workers/arts organizations in social justice organizing and supports social justice organizations in understanding the role art and culture can play in movement building. Based in New Orleans but working nationally, Sage believes in...
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Paola Mendoza
Film Director, Activist, Author, and ArtistPaola Mendoza is a film director, activist, author and artist working at the leading-edge of human rights. A co-founder of The Women’s March, she served as its Artistic Director and co-authored The New York Times best-seller, Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard around the World. Paola’s most recent...
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Zahra Noorbakhsh
Comedian, Podcaster, and WriterZahra Noorbakhsh is a Feminist Muslim, Iranian-American, award-winning comedian, podcaster, and writer. Her essays have been featured in The New York Times and NPR’s Fresh Air. In addition to her two sold-out performances of her stand-up comedy special “On Behalf of All Muslims” at the Golden Thread Theater in San Francisco, her...
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