The Bush Foundation in Saint Paul, Minnesota, has announced the 2021 class of Bush Fellows.

The annual program supports the development of social sector leaders in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and the twenty-three Native nations that share the same geography. This year's fellows will receive up to $100,000 each to pursue a range of experiences designed to help them become more effective, equitable leaders.

Selected from a pool of five hundred and thirty-eight applicants, the twenty-four fellows include Sandra Gabriela Filardo, an assistant Hennepin County attorney who is working to create a community-based system of healing and care focused on preventing trauma and recidivism; Nathan Caleb Johnson, who is focused on helping the architectural and construction fields take a leading role in advancing economic and racial justice; physician Dziwe Willard Ntaba, who will leverage his work at the University of Minnesota Medical School to better understand how historical mistreatment, trauma, and patient experiences can lead to poor health outcomes; and Mai Thor, who is studying ableism and disability culture, history, and law, with the goal of embedding disability justice in the work of the larger justice and equity movements.

"We need leaders who can imagine new systems and transform existing ones, working inside and outside systems to foster new and just approaches," said Bush Foundation vice president of grantmaking Anita Patel.

For a complete list of the 2021 Bush Fellows, see the Bush Foundation website.