Amanda Oduka has joined the Atlantic Institute as the the team’s new Impact Fund Lead. In this role, Amanda will design and deliver a fund for Atlantic Fellows’ collaborative projects. Her responsibilities will include the design of the fund’s objectives, as well as its application and review processes.

‘How can COVID-19 vaccines be distributed equitably?’ was the question raised in our latest webinar in the (K)new World Reimagined series which looks at the potential for positive change post COVID-19.

Chuck Feeney founded Atlantic Philanthropies in 1982 with the ambition of advancing opportunity and promoting equity and dignity. The foundation completed its grantmaking in 2016 and this week, with one final signature from Chuck, went out of business. Its final big bet is the Atlantic Fellows; up to 3000 people with diverse backgrounds from all over the world, united in the common purpose of building fairer, healthier, more equitable societies. Currently, there are almost 500 Atlantic Fellows drawn from seven global equity-focussed programs.

The Atlantic Institute's fifth webinar in the series explored Racialization of COVID-19: Resistance and Reimagining. It examined racism as a factor in the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds, and how the virus has exposed the need for urgent change.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Elizabeth McKinley has been appointed as the new Executive Director of the Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity (AFSE).

Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity - Statement on the death of George Floyd

"We are as safe as the most vulnerable people in our community". As an Afghan woman who came to Britain at the age of 11, Zarlasht Halaimzai, knows firsthand the refugee experience. It motivated her to set up Refugee Trauma Initiative of which she is Executive Director. Zarlasht is also an Obama Fellow and was one of the speakers in the third webinar in the series, A (K)new World Reimagined on the topic, Displacement – Lockdown When You Have No Home.

The emergent themes from the second in the Webinar Series A (K)new World Reimagined - Global Solidarity and Leadership illustrated in this beautiful graphic harvesting from Sita Magnuson and Alicia Bramlett.

The results of ‘graphic harvesting’ produced live and revealed at the end of the first webinar in our series, A (K)new World: Post Covid-19. The topic was Universal Healthcare and the Care Economy and included a powerful Q & A session about how the most negatively impacted by COVID-19 can be better served in a reimagined healthcare economy.

The Atlantic Institute has launched new grants, designed to provide targeted support and resources to scaffold and scale Fellows’ collective work to minimise the impact of COVID-19 on endangered and vulnerable communities.