Kea Mathis l EJAM 2017 Fellow Agitating for change As a 2017 fellow, Kea Mathis had just moved to Michigan and wanted to be a civically engaged citizen. When she started the program, she thought about equity as a race issue because, as a Black woman, she had personally known and lived discrimination
Renard Monczunski l EJAM 2017 Fellow Fighting for transit rights As a lifelong Detroit bus rider, Renard Monczunski believes the city has one of the worst transit systems in the country. As such, he was driven toward transportation justice as a career. “If no one organizes to improve our transit here in Detroit, it
Jamie Junior | EJAM Fellow Reminding us Black Disabled Lives Matter For three years, Jamie Junior, has been working in the disability and racial justice arenas. But she is taking her work and her depth of knowledge about the role of an organizer to a new level as a 2020 EJAM fellow. At
Imani Clark l EJAM 2018 Fellow Growing young leaders When Imani Clark became an EJAM fellow in 2018, she was already on a path toward community organizing and helping others. But with the fellowship, which took place in Flint, she learned that she could make a career out of organizing, along with doing
