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 exis