Joining a lifelong community of Fellows: Cohort 5 graduates to Senior Fellowship

All members of the fifth cohort of the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity programme have successfully completed their active fellowship year and have now joined the lifelong fellowship community which includes Fellows from across the seven Atlantic Fellowships around the world.

The 17 Fellows, who joined the programme based at LSE International Inequalities Institute in September 2021, hail from Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America and the Caribbean. Among them are eight Residential Fellows, whose London-based active fellowship saw them complete the MSc in Inequalities and Social Science at LSE, and nine Non-Residential Fellows who executed fellowship projects in addition to taking part in the bespoke Atlantic Fellowship modules alongside the Residential Fellows.

The new Senior Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity are:

• Aisha Abdulaziz from Kenya. Her Fellowship Project examined how the design of electricity access projects can be improved to consider and respond to existing social and economic inequalities within countries.
• Rafael Barrio de Mendoza Zevallos from Peru. His MSc Dissertation explored the emergence of fishermen’s evidentiary practices and the epistemic controversy of the Repsol La Pampilla oil spill in Peru.
• Sergio Chaparro Hernandez from Colombia. His MSc Dissertation focused on Global Green Deals and analysed the alternative proposals for a just transition and their potential implementation in the Global South.
• Ruby Hembrom from India. Her MSc Dissertation was an inquiry into what constitutes Adivasi feminism, and how it is a living, evolving, functional, emancipatory framing paradigm.
• Myriam Hernández Vazquez from Mexico. Her Fellowship Project ‘GAWI: An ancestral dream of caring for Earth’ is a VR film co-created with the Rarámuri culture.
• Kruskaya Hidalgo Cordero from Ecuador. Her Fellowship Project ‘Código doméstico in the flesh’ is a digital territory that articulates life stories and embodied perspectives of women who work in cleaning apps in some countries of Abya Yala.
• Ishrat Jahan from India. Her MSc Dissertation explored land inequality among Indigenous (Adivasi) communities and how the Forest Rights Act, 2006 of India can undo the historical injustice done to the forest-dwelling communities by colonial forest policies and subsequent state actions.
• Makmid Kamara from Sierra Leone. His Fellowship Project examined whether financial reparation measures in post-conflict countries contribute to reproducing inequality.
• Caroline Kioko from Kenya. Her Fellowship Project explored the impact of development aid on gender equality in Kenya.
• Madhuresh Kumar from India. His Fellowship Project was a comparative study of the approaches undertaken by Indian and South African social and climate justice movements in developing the next generation of leaders.
• Kevin Liverpool from Trinidad and Tobago. His Fellowship Project ‘Who Cares?’ is a docu-drama that explores lived experiences and reflections on unpaid care work in Trinidad and Tobago.
• Clare MacGillivray from Scotland. Her Fellowship Project ‘Fearless in the defence of rights’ is a podcast mini-series exploring what life is like for human rights defenders in Scotland: who they are, the challenges they face, and how we can protect and allow them to flourish.
• Jenny McEneaney from Northern Ireland. Her MSc Dissertation explored the motivations of those involved in social movements that challenged the UK Government's policy decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Jite Phido from Nigeria. Her Fellowship Project interrogated how Nigerian newspapers discursively represent Nigerian women’s movements for gender equality, and how these representations may be legitimising gender (in)equality as a concept in Nigerian society.
• Zephanie Repollo from the Philippines. Her Fellowship Project ‘Women's Economic Realities’ is a podcast series inspired by Doughnut Economics and focused on the living stories of rural and indigenous peasant women in the Philippines.
• Daniel Salazar Murillo from Costa Rica. His MSc Dissertation studied how the implementation of black box algorithms in Los Angeles, California, and Uruguay deepened or reproduced social inequalities in law enforcement public policies and how they were legitimised by the governments that used them.
• Amanda Segnini from Brazil. Her MSc Dissertation analysed the Brazilian extreme-right rhetoric on climate politics.