The Just Leader Fellowship is a place of becoming. It is a circle of young stewards, dreamers, growers, and alchemists who arrive with a dream already shimmering inside them. This dream is a bud, a vision, an ancestral memory, a purpose.

At CoFED, we believe that the dreams of food and land leaders within the QTBIPOC communities, are not intangible things but in fact are living, breathing spells cast toward a more liberated future. They deserve tending and protection. They deserve the right conditions to take root and rise.

The Fellowship is a chrysalis of conditions and it begins as all sacred things do: in the places where transformation first stirs. Like life itself, this program follows an 8-month arc.  Because we believe that real change, the kind that remembers lineage and reshapes the future, cannot be rushed. It grows the way buds grow: bravely with wisdom and power.

The Just Leader Fellowship is a container of transformation and alchemy. A place where political education becomes illumination. Where technical skill becomes empowerment. Where leadership becomes embodied and cooperative. And where each Fellow’s project becomes a site of community healing and sovereignty.

The JLF meets emerging (ages 18 – 30) food and land leaders with background and knowledge in QTBIPOC communities and it: activates their dreams, co-weaves networks with them, alchemizes the brilliance they already hold. Each Fellow arrives with a bud that is a project already pulsing with possibility. And we invite you to apply so we can support you to:

• Root it in historical and ancestral wisdom
• Nourish it with political clarity and decolonial analysis
• Fortify it with technical skills and community support
• Grow it in alignment with a future freed from extraction

We look forward to reading your application!