Media, Data & Tech Fellowships

PROJECT

Community Media, Data and Technology (CMDT) fellowships provide annual funding and technical support to community organizations in Champaign County looking to advance promising ideas to change local communities and systems. All projects could be opportunities to empower communities to imagine new futures under racial justice principles.

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The Fellows

Get to know the fellows of the Media, Data & Tech Fellowships project.

Community Data & Tech Fellow

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The Community Advisors

Get to know the community advisors of the Media, Data & Tech Fellowships project.

Community Advisor Board

Community Projects, Community Impacts

The Community Research Cooperative’s Technology Fellows Program funded 4 local community-based technology projects dedicated to social justice work in Champaign County with $5,000 grants. Fellows were also supported by a semester-long mentorship program and a workshop series led by local community leaders on Working with At-risk Youth, to Trauma-informed methods to Backpocket media production. Coordinated by an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the University of Illinois, the Co-op’s Fellowship program was also guided by a Community Advisory Board. We thank our amazing Fellows and members of our Advisory Board for their remarkable work with our team!

IMPACTS BY THE #

6 tech fellows funded

$20k in local grants to support the development of tech infrastructure for local community organizers with racial and social justice focus:
-Dawn Blackman’s Community Technology Center at the Champaign Church of the Brethren
-Herbert and Stephanie Burnett’s Not on My Watch Project
-Miriam Larson and Stephanie Posey’s Imagining Freedom Story Telling Project
-Debarah and Shannon McFarland’s Dream Girls Academy