Members of the fourth cohort of Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity 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.
Due to COVID-19, our fourth cohort of Fellows went through their active fellowship year completely virtually. Throughout the year the AFSEE team and the Fellows worked together to build virtual spaces, making a point of creating meaningful spaces for the purpose of working collaboratively online across multiple time zones. “It has been a joy to learn from, talk to, and share (virtual) spaces with our fourth cohort of Fellows. Even though all the modules were completely virtual for their year, each of the Fellows entered each space with openness, care, and a deep hunger to learn and teach through the dialogic principles of the programme. It is now a pleasure to have them join our wider community of Senior Fellows, knowing that they will bring that generosity and commitment into that sphere, ” reflected Dr Sara Camacho Felix, AFSEE Assistant Professorial Lecturer and Programme Lead on the unprecedented year.
The 14 Fellows, who joined the programme based at LSE’s International Inequalities Institute in September 2020, hail from Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America. Among them are five Residential Fellows, whose London-based active fellowship saw them complete the MSc in Inequalities and Social Science at LSE, in addition to the bespoke Atlantic Fellowship modules they followed alongside the nine Non-Residential Fellows.
The new Senior Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity are: Christopher Choong Weng Wai (Malaysia), Andrea Encalada García (Chile), Viviana Osorio Perez (Colombia), Imogen Richmond-Bishop (United Kingdom), Irene Wakarindi (Kenya), Mohammed-Anwar Sadat Adam (Ghana), Kitti Baracsi (Hungary), Maria Carrasco (Chile), Danilo Ćurčić (Serbia), Máximo Ernesto Jaramillo-Molina (Mexico), Georgia Haddad Nicolau (Brazil), Mauro Fernández (Argentina), Oabona Sepora (Botswana), and Barbara van Paassen (Netherlands).
Dr Armine Ishkanian, Executive Director of the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity programme, offered her congratulations to the new Senior Fellows on behalf of the programme team and fellowship community: “I would like to congratulate the Fellows in Cohort 4 for graduating and becoming a part of our growing community of Senior Fellows. I know that undertaking the entire fellowship online during the COVID-19 pandemic was not easy, but the Fellows in Cohort 4 met the challenges posed by the pandemic with grace, resilience, and resolve. Not only did they use the online spaces of Moodle, Slack, and Zoom to great effect but they also created new spaces and embraced other platforms (e.g., Miro) to connect, collaborate, and share. We are excited to be working with them and seeing the innovative and important projects they produced as part of their active fellowship year. Moreover, it was exciting to finally meet most of the Cohort 4 Fellows in-person, when we hosted Module 3 at LSE at the end of April. We look forward to continuing to work with them and developing new collaborations in the future,” she said.
