Fletcher Foundation

The Fletcher Foundation is a nonprofit foundation that supports civil rights and environmental education. It was created with a $50 million endowment in 2004 by New York financier and philanthropist Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. [http://fletcherphilanthropy.org]

A 1987 graduate of Harvard University, Fletcher worked in investment banking and in 1993 founded Fletcher Asset Management. A Harvard Class Marshal, Fletcher endowed a University Professorship at his alma mater, first held by philosopher Cornel West and now held by literary critic Henry Louis Gates, Jr. In 2004, in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education, the Fletcher Foundation announced the creation of the Alphonse Fletcher, Sr. Fellowship program, described by foundation chair Henry Louis Gates, Jr. as "Guggenheims for race issues." [ [http://thealgebraproject.org/a_fletcher_fellowship_awarded_to_bob_moses Fletcher Fellowship Awarded to Bob Moses] .] The inaugural class of Fletcher Fellows, each awarded $50,000, was selected in 2005.

2005 Inaugural Fletcher Fellows

[http://www.graywolfpress.org/index2.php?option=content&do_pdf=1&id=521 Graywolf Press]

*Elizabeth Alexander, poet and African-American studies professor, Yale University
*Devon Carbado, law professor at University of California, Los Angeles
*Kathleen Cleaver, author and former Black Panther Party activist
*Stanley Crouch, cultural critic and author
*Roland Fryer, economist and member of Harvard Society of Fellows
*Anita Hill, civil rights attorney and law professor Brandeis University
* Nina Jablonski, biological anthropologist and author of "Skin"
*Glenn Ligon, artist, New York
*Arthur Mitchell, founder of the Dance Theatre of Harlem
*Robert Parris Moses, educator and civil rights leader
*Thomas Sugrue, civil rights historian and professor at University of Pennsylvania
*Deborah Willis, photographer and documentarian and professor at New York University

2006 Fletcher Fellows

[http://www.fletcher.com/IR/pdf/PressReleaseFletcherFellows.pdf Fletcher Fellows Press Release]

*Lawrence Bobo, race relations scholar and professor at Stanford University
*Fatimah L.C. Jackson, professor of anthropology, University of Maryland
*Randall Kennedy, professor of law, Harvard University
*Miranda Massie, civil rights attorney, Detroit, Michigan
*Lorna Simpson, artist, New York
*Anna Deveare Smith, performance artist, actress, and University Professor, New York University
*Valerie Smith, professor of English and director African-American Studies Program, Princeton University
*Margaret Beale Spencer, professor of education, University of Pennsylvania
*Brent Staples, award-winning journalist, "New York Times"
*Patricia Sullivan, associate professor of history, University of South Carolina
*Loic Wacquant, professor of sociology and boxer, University of California, Berkeley

2007 Fletcher Fellows

[http://www.fletcher.com/IR/pdf/PressReleaseFletcherFellows.pdf Fletcher Fellows Press Release]

*Hinton Als, journalist and literary critic
*Cheryl Finley, assistant professor of art history, Cornell University
*Joy A. James, professor of Africana Studies, Williams College
*Kenneth Mack, professor of law, Harvard University
*Charles Payne, professor of sociology and education, Duke University

2008 Fletcher Fellows

*Clayborne Carson, professor of history, Stanford University
*Kimberle Crenshaw, professor of law, UCLA and Columbia Law School
*Kellie Jones, associate professor of art history and archaeology,Columbia University
*Stacy L. Leeds, professor of law, University of Kansas

Further reading

*"Wall Street Journal", 15 April 2005 (article about Fletcher Fellowships)
*"Boston Globe", 20 May 2005 (article about Fletcher Fellowships)

External links

* [http://fletcherphilanthropy.org Fletcher Foundation] official website

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