Cicia Lee is the Co-Training Director of Momentum, a training institute and movement incubator dedicated to studying and experimenting with popular movements. She grew up in Canada, and is currently based in Boston. Previously, Cicia worked for the Massachusetts Communities Action Network, which organizes congregations around racial and economic justice as a part of the PICO Network. She graduated from Wellesley College, where she spent her time studying feminist economics, political philosophy, and reading Asian-American authors. She is a 3-wing-4 on the enneagram and a taurus.

Kade Cahe, is a first-generation Black Dominican Queer GNC person from the Bronx. Kade dreams, schemes, and acts to dismantle anti-blackness, transphobia, ableism, gender-based violence, the prison industrial complex, and capitalism, to start, while creating radical restorative futures within our communities. You can find Kade as the Member Engagement and Leadership Coordinator at the Audre Lorde Project, an LGBTSTGNC community organizing center in New York City. They also organize through the BYP100 NYC chapter as one of the Healing and Safety co-chairs to bring holistic liberation to all black people. Kade utilizes their background as critical educator, organizer, and leadership trainer, on Swipe it Forward! actions, #SayHerName actions, and when integrating wellness into organizing spaces.

Rashad Jamal Buni (they/them/he/him) is a native Detroiter who is incredibly passionate in technology, social justice, and the intersection of both. Rashad is the Abolition Organizer for Good Jobs Now, leading campaigns on the dismantlement of the prison industrial complex in the city of Detroit and beyond. They joined the Movement for Black Lives after witnessing the active displacement and gentrification experienced by longtime Detroiters. Rashad soon joined the Detroit chapter of BYP 100, who are currently working on a campaign against hyper-surveillance in the city. In addition to growing as a direct action organizer, Rashad aspires to utilize their background in engineering to develop software that empowers activists and community organizers, like projects under Platform Cooperativism.

Samantha Master is a Black queer feminist organizer and educator from PG County, MD. Her work at the intersections of race, gender and LGBTQ justice has been featured in several publications including TheRoot, TheGrio, Diverse Issues in Higher Education, the award winning film, The New Black. She is a member of the Black Youth Project 100 and co-leads the #FreeBlackMamasDMV bail out to decarcerate Black mothers who cannot afford bail and reunite them with their families and their communities. Samantha’s passionate about revolutionary communications, training, facilitation, and making biscuits for herself and her people. Follow her on all the things @TheFireNexTime.

This Fellowship is named in honor of TFC Training Elder Judith C. Jones, Ph.D. Also known as “Diva Bear,” Judith worked with Training for Change for over a decade and for years was lead trainer in TFC’s Training for Social Action Trainers and Advanced Training of Trainer workshops. Judith grew up in Philadelphia, received her doctorate in Political Science from Atlanta University, and has taught at Penn State University and at Philadelphia University. Judith is also co-author of “Two Voices from the Front Line: A Conversation about Race in the Classroom,” included in the award winning anthology “Race in the College Classroom,” published by Rutgers University Press. She has led diversity and conflict workshops for a diverse client base and has served as a guide and role model to many TFC Trainers.