2024 Chicago Peace Fellows
The Goldin Institute invites you to learn about each of our 2024 Chicago Peace Fellows representing 14 community areas across the city. Founded in 2019 in collaboration with the Partnership for Safe and Peaceful Communities, the Chicago Peace Fellows program is the only leadership development program that is built by and for grassroots community leaders on the South and West sides of Chicago.
Overview
Peace Fellows participate in GATHER, an online asset-based community engagement course, as well as in-person training, collaborative action projects, and networking experiences with civic leaders, academic researchers, and policy makers. The Chicago Peace Fellows reduce violence by building relationships, engaging youth, collaborative peace building projects over the summer and by creating new networks among residents, families, schools, and nonprofit organizations.
Meet the 2024 Chicago Peace Fellows
Ana Maria Hernandez
Arts Activator, Music Moves Chicago
Aniki Coates
Senior Manager of Horticulture & Wellness, Bethel New Life
Annette Cartman
Owner, Doing Something Awesome
Annie Liddell
Executive Director, St. Paul Community & Family Services
Anthony Jones
Project Manager, You Matter at the Darren B. Easterling Center
Antonio Daniels
President, Adams Block Club 5500
Antonio Davis
Founder & Executive Director, Paving The Way Project
Ariel Rainey
CEO, Hustle Mommies
Ava Hawkins
Founder, Blakes Place For Diverse Scholars Athletes And Cultural Artists
Christopher Payne
Executive Director, Artology Studio Chicago
Elaine Marthel
Executive Director, Project Impact 180
Irynn Ashaki Williams McClain
Deputy Director of R3 Programs, A Just Harvest
Jason Michael Maldonado
ReEntry Program Coordinator, Enlace Chicago
Kevin Amaro
Community Engagement Specialist, Chinese American Service League Anti-Hate Action Center
Parrish Brown
Director of Partnerships, Good Lookin Out LLC
Pat Day-McCray
CEO and Founder, A Pathway From Grief
Riccadonna Chaidez
Manager, Chicago Community Safety Coordination Center
Steve Archer II
Founder, Archer Farms
Tai Donovan
Director of Operations, Medical Careers Exposure and Emergency Preparedness Initiative
About the Program
The Chicago Peace Fellows project connects and equips cohorts of past grantees of the Chicago Fund for Safe and Peaceful Communities to reduce violence and promote peace. The 2024 Chicago Peace Fellows is the sixth all-Chicago cohort to utilize the GATHER platform, an online learning hub built by the Goldin Institute to empower grassroots leaders.
The Chicago Peace Fellows will engage in a 30-week course of intensive shared learning as well as group projects, culminating in a graduation event in November, 2024. The curriculum was designed in collaboration with Partnership for Safe and Peaceful grantees and refined by annual cohorts of Chicago Peace Fellows, based on their practical knowledge and hard earned wisdom.
The Goldin Institute and the Partnership for Safe and Peaceful Communities have aligned missions that value authentic community leadership. The Chicago Fund is uniquely effective at finding motivated problem-solvers and community-builders. By connecting Chicago leaders through GATHER, their efforts to nurture safer and more peaceful communities will be more effective, interconnected and lasting.
Learn about our GATHER platform
The Fellows are learning together through GATHER, which is both a mobile platform for shared learning and a curriculum for people who want to build on the talents of their neighbors and the assets of their communities to make real and lasting change. Gather Fellows learn and work together through an innovative curriculum that comes pre-loaded on a tablet device with all the connectivity, materials, videos, practices and tools necessary to provide a mobile classroom and toolkit for community leadership.
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