For example, a candidate for the Fellowship could be:

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The Right to Food Learning and Action Fellows Program assembles and supports cohorts of emerging leaders working within their communities to advance the right to food in law, policy, and / or practice at local and state levels.

Many of our members are organizers working at state, local, and community levels. Their enthusiasm and commitment to using a right to food framework encouraged us to form the Right to Food Learning and Action Fellows Program as both a movement building tool and a way to invest directly in the transformation of a cohort of local organizers. We do this through funding, skills-based workshops, and an interactive and participant-led curriculum on the right to food framework.

Purpose & Outcomes | Benefits | Eligibility | Current Fellows | Future Cohorts

Purpose and Outcomes

Aiming to deepen relationships and strengthen efforts across the country among emerging leaders in the movement for the right to food.

The Right to Food Learning and Action Fellowship Program strengthens and weaves together local advocates and their efforts at local and state levels to progressively realize the right to food through law, policy, and practice.

Facilitate shared learning and mutual support among organizers to advocate for the right to food in law, policy, and practice at local and state levels.Nurture fellows’ understanding of the challenges, technical assistance needs, and best practices for progressively realizing the right to food at local and state levels across the country.Support fellows to identify and/or develop new and potentially replicable policy and program pathways and practices at a local level towards progressively realizing the right to food, ensuring food is universally accessible, available, adequate, and sustainable.Encourage and resource fellows to use tools, stories, and strategies to confidently and effectively use right to food narratives in local advocacy efforts and win the hearts and minds of allies, neighbors, and people with decision-making power.Encourage fellows in their own work to bridge traditionally siloed social justice sectors: food, farming, land access, housing, workers’ rights, childcare, the differently abled, and racial justice.

Fellowship Benefits

Peer connection and relationship building in a confidential, supportive space with other leaders doing similar work.
Financial assistance (up to $5k) to develop or strengthen advocacy and/or projects in their own context or community framed in terms of food as a human right.
Technical assistance in the form of dedicated advisors and regular group meetings (both virtual and in-person) to increase organizations’ knowledge and capacity for design, collaboration, and implementation of right to food advocacy and other projects.
Scholarships for travel to expand their network, deepen their connections, and join a national movement for the Right to Food.
Membership in the National Right to Food Community of Practice.

Eligibility

People seeking to deepen their understanding of and capacity to progressively realize food as a human right in state and local law, policy, or practice.

Selected Fellows are organizers and advocates affiliated with nonprofits, community-based organizations, advocacy networks, faith-based groups, food policy councils, research institutions, and grassroots initiatives, among others. Fellows enter the cohort with a desire to build relationships rooted in trust with other peers. They articulate a clear year-long planning and/or implementation goal towards strengthening the right to food in law, policy, or practice.

Seeking to develop a narrative strategy or campaign to seed the right to food in public discourse.Catalyzing efforts at a local and state level by connecting organizations, advocates, farmers and fishers, and communities to each other for the purposes of learning, building capacity, and amplifying a common message and agenda.Building or growing a state or local coalition working towards codifying the right to food in law and policy at local and state levels.In this inaugural phase of the program, we invited members of the National Right to Food Community of Practice to apply.

Meet the 2025–26 Right to Food Fellows

The first cohort of Right to Food Learning and Action Fellows were from organizations in Colorado, Florida, Mississippi, New York, and West Virginia.

Future Right to Food Learning and Action Fellows Cohorts

Watch this space for information about applying for the next cohort of Right to Food Learning and Action Fellows.

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Purpose and Outcomes

Aims

Outcomes

Fellowship Benefits

Eligibility

For example, a candidate for the Fellowship could be:

Meet the 2025–26 Right to Food Fellows

Brizai Gomez Cortes and Emily Settlecowski, Denver, CO

Erica Hall, St. Petersburg, FL

Carolina Rascon, Morgantown, WV

Tyler Yarbrough, Clarksdale, MS

Peyton Yourch, Schenectady, NY

Future Right to Food Learning and Action Fellows Cohorts