This year’s class of fellows includes 18 Minnesotans.
Bush Foundation
Over Half of 2021 Bush Fellows Are Minnesotans
Each recipient will receive up to $100,000 to continue their work, which ranges from tackling racial disparities in education and health care to reshaping how the judicial system handles non-violent crimes.
Minnesotans comprise over half of the 2021 class of Bush Fellows. On Tuesday, the St. Paul-based Bush Foundation unveiled the 24 individuals chosen for its yearly fellowship. Eighteen fellows hail from Minnesota.
“These 24 Fellows are committed to strengthening their capacity to lead large-scale, equitable change,” said Anita Patel, Bush Foundation’s VP of grantmaking, in a press release. “In this time when our region faces reckoning around racial justice sparked by the murder of George Floyd, inequities exposed by Covid-19, and challenges to Native sovereignty, we need leaders who can imagine new systems and transform existing ones. We find inspiration in the vision these Fellows offer our region as they work inside and outside of systems to foster new and just approaches.”