The 2020 ARCEL Fellowship Cohort has been Selected
The Emerging ARC Leaders (ARCEL) Fellowship is a program designed to accomplish four things:
Identify, annually, six rising young leaders whose sense of calling lives at the intersection of creative practice, spirituality, and work that builds up communities. These leaders will be drawn from gap-year young adults, undergraduates, graduate students, working artists, and early career clergy.
Provide these leaders with exposure to tools, models, and relationships that can help them to thrive in their individual contexts and communities where they may feel disconnected and relatively unsupported in terms of their work to braid together creative and spiritual practices.
Encourage these leaders as they wrestle with their sense of call, introducing them to each other and to networks of other leaders who are at the edge of innovation and discovery about the ways in which the arts and religion can be twinned to produce transformative opportunities for reflection and change.
Make Space for the fellows to reflect and discern how their own unique skills can best be used to promote the flourishing of all creation.
The 2020 Fellows are Larissa Romero, Mahalia Damm, Olivia Kamil Smarr, Peregrine Morkal-Williams , Stephani Pescitelli, and Y. Joy Harris-Smith. More about each of them can be found here.