From confronting authoritarianism in Central America to challenging patriarchal norms in South Korea and rethinking global debt, Fellows from the 2024–25 Cohort of the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity (AFSEE) finish their active fellowship year and graduate to Senior Fellowship with renewed clarity, conviction, and community.
The AFSEE Fellowship has been a life-changing experience, a safe harbour in turbulent times, and a rare opportunity to learn, reflect, and grow. I have been inspired by fresh perspectives, sustained by new friendships, and gained a sense of belonging to a global community of activists working to build a more equal world, together.Jen Ang, AFSEE Fellow (2024-25 Cohort)
During their active fellowship year, the 2024-25 Cohort participated in four intensive learning modules focusing on foundations of social & economic inequalities, policy for equity, challenging & transforming inequality, and the crisis of democracy. In addition to attending the AFSEE Modules, Residential Fellows completed the MSc in Inequalities and Social Science at LSE, and Non-Residential Fellows implemented projects that offered new insights, challenges, or solutions to inequalities. Across five continents, their projects and dissertations examined how inequality is produced, normalised, and resisted — from everyday acts of care and defiance under repression in El Salvador, to eradicating conversion practices in Ghana, and the human cost of sovereign debt crises.
Read more about the 2024-25 Fellows and their dissertations/projects below:
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Residential Fellows:
The AFSEE Fellowship is a lifelong journey. After completing the active fellowship year, Fellows from the 2024-25 Cohort will start their AFSEE Senior Fellowship journeys, where they have access to a variety of funding, initiatives, and collaborative projects to support their professional development, learning, and knowledge exchange. As Senior Fellows, they will also join the wider Global Atlantic Fellows community, comprised of Fellows from all seven Atlantic Fellowships around the world.
Stepping into their roles as Senior Fellows, the cohort carries forward more than new research, films, toolkits, and policy ideas. They leave with strengthened ethical commitments, global networks of collaboration, and a shared belief that advancing social and economic equity demands action rooted in lived experience and sustained solidarity across borders.
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