Climate Justice Fellowship 2024

For the SPRING 2024 Cycle, we will dedicate one of our three Fellowship slots to the fourth Climate Justice Fellowship. 

This year's Climate Justice Fellowship is centered around the theme of "Points of Contact, Conflict and Convergence". This is a call to examine the often contrasting ideas about environmental stewardship and resilience, emphasizing the complexity and urgency of addressing climate change impacts on both land and people.

We invite projects that range from from specific land use conflicts in New York City to more elemental explorations of natural convergences, such as where land meets water, and how our bodies mediate our experience with place-based climate change. We welcome diverse viewpoints on climate crisis solutions, whether they involve architectural barriers, natural defenses, innovative technology, or adaptive strategies like relocation.

Theme provided by Nora Almeida, Climate Justice Fellow 2023

Please check our General Fellowship Guidelines before applying.

Applicants are encouraged to review our organization’s mission before submitting materials. Our Mission is HERE.

As with each of our Fellowships, the Climate Justice Fellow will also be supported for a full year with communal resources, consultation, project development, access to our online publication, online tools, social media, institutional representation, and a stipend of $2000. Any proposals should keep community and solving common human problems through hands-on civic participation and imagination at the forefront. We are excited to see your ideas! 

For the first two years of the Climate Justice Fellowship, the Fellowship was water-based, and was part of a collaboration between Culture Push, arts organization Works on Water, and the Waterfront and Open Spaces Division of the NYC Department of City Planning. The two projects, Walking the Edge and Tending the Edge, served as a catalyst for waterfront exploration, artistic research, and community activation, and were part of the research and outreach process for the Comprehensive Waterfront Plan.

Timeline:

• March 18, 2024, 11:59 PM ET: Open Call deadline

• April 2024: Fellow is informed

• April / May 2024: Initial project discussion

• May 2024- May 2025: Continuing support and strategizing

Spring 2024 Information Session Recording

Applicants will be notified of our decision by late April or early May, and should be prepared and available to begin working with Culture Push shortly thereafter.

Any questions should be addressed to cp@culturepush.org with the subject line “Climate Justice Fellowship Question”

Cody Herrmann

CLIMATE JUSTICE FELLOW 2021

PROJECT: FLUSHING WATERWAYS BOATHOUSE

Cody Ann Herrmann is an artist and community organizer based in Flushing, Queens, NYC. Guided by her interest in public space, participatory design methods, and urban resilience Cody’s work often explores urban planning processes while applying an iterative, human centered approach to ecological problem solving. Since 2014 her work has focused on her hometown of Flushing, creating projects critiquing policy related to land use and environmental planning in areas surrounding Flushing Bay and Flushing Creek.
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Simone Johnson

CLIMATE JUSTICE FELLOW 2020

PROJECT: Shades of Blue

Experiment Shades of Blue explored policy, law, design and storytelling as tools of world-building for earth-centered water futures. Simone focused on researching The Rights of Nature, the emerging field of law called Earth Jurisprudence, and the movement to revitalize Indigenous laws in Canada, as well as other intersecting interests.
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