The Seeding Disruption Fellowship helps youth-facing professionals in DC solve problems with equity-driven design thinking.
The Seeding Disruption Fellowship supports educators and youth-facing professionals develop equitable solutions to challenges they face every day.
Educational entities are at best unaware of, and at worst actively advancing, racial inequities. The Seeding Disruption Fellowship seeks to intentionally disrupt patterns of inequity in ways that will contribute to the dismantling of existing systems and rebuilding of more equitable ones.
The Seeding Disruption Fellowship brings together a diverse group of leaders in Washington, DC, from organizations doing work in PK–12 education and in intersecting fields. Over the course of 13 months, participants develop their skills and knowledge as leaders for equity; build community across racial difference, organizations, and fields; and generate, seed, and catalyze disruptive practices for the purpose of dismantling systems of racial inequity in Washington, DC. The group centers its work on students, though participants come to that shared focus from a range of perspectives. Our pilot cohort of 24 participants began its work in 2017.
Seeding Disruption is a co-creation of Michelle Molitor and Abigail Smith. Michelle and Abigail have a combined 40+ years in public education, most of that in Washington, DC. They bring extensive perspective and experience that spans teaching, school leadership, non-profit management, and high-level school district and local government leadership in DC. Seeding Disruption’s inaugural cohort was generously funded by Education Forward DC.