Forgotten Foods Fellowship

For young adults ages 21-24

Forgotten Foods Fellowship is a 10-month educational and hands-on experience for Staten Island young adults (ages 21 - 24). Fellows are trained to be neighborhood organizers who creatively tackle food justice issues using a root-cause approach. They learn Forgotten Foods’ community organizing approach and principles, food justice and mutual aid-related terms, popular education, and how to analyze City policy. In the latter half of the fellowship, fellows apply skills and concepts learned to co-develop curriculum, co-facilitate FFAY internship classes, and co-organize a neighborhood project. 

Here are some of the outcomes we strive for in the Forgotten Foods Fellowship:

Personal Learning Outcomes

  • Discover your unique leadership and community organizing style

  • Apply self-liberatory practices to programmatic spaces and the surrounding neighborhood

  • Understand your personal path in community organizing

  • Create meaningful goals to deepen to your personal, professional, or academic journeys

Relational Outcomes

  • Build vital collaboration skills in a non-traditional non-profit organization

  • Practice cultural humility, curiosity, mindfulness, and emotional intelligence with other fellows and the surrounding neighborhood

  • Co-organize a neighborhood market in Stapleton with teenagers

Educational Outcomes

  • Teach Forgotten Foods community organizing approach, principles, and values which are rooted in collectivism, a deep analysis of power, and repair

  • Gain proficiency in community organizing, urban agriculture and/or community cooking

  • Learn skills in interpersonal communication, event planning, community-based research, policy analysis, facilitation, and community outreach