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Apply for ILI Year 8
APPLY FOR THE ILI YEAR 8 FELLOWSHIP Applications for ILI Year are accepted from established and emerging artists, culture bearers and other arts practitioners in various stages of career development. Due 8/21/26
A fellowship program for culturally diverse artists and culture bearers that deepens connections for strengthened emergent and authentic leadership.
Arts & Culture
Wellness on Wheels: When Art, Healing, and Community Collide
FELLOW FEATURE: Learn about the work of ILI Year 6 Fellow April Fitzpatrick, “Pineapple Lady” through her own story about “Wellness on Wheels (W.O.W.)”
Altadena CA Wildfires Impact a Tightly-Knit Community
Story by ILI Year 6 Nahshon Dion Altadena, CA, with almost 44,000 residents, is known for its diversity and tightly-knit community environment. It has been home to well-known figures such as Charles
ILI YEAR 6 FELLOWS
Native Land Acknowledgement
ILI inherently honors the Indigenous lands of the colonized United States of America. We recognize that this land that extends into the beautiful Pacific Islands in Hawai’i, that reaches to the north to the resource rich soil of Alaska, to the lands that encompass Central North America – Turtle Island, with islands that lie in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, are and have been stewarded and held sovereign, not by the European relatives that forced their colonial power, but by multi-national Indigenous relatives who have ancient lineages that were and are still tied to these sacred lands. We acknowledge this history and honor these ancient lineages as well as those who were stolen or made to flee from their sovereign land due to colonization, genocide, imperialism, or war.
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Cease Fire Solidarity Statement
The Intercultural Leadership Institute stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people and with all civilians who are caught in the midst of violence, colonialism, forced migration, and the cruel denial of access to basic human necessities like food, water, power, and shelter that will inevitably lead to their extermination if it persists. We are calling for an immediate ceasefire against the Palestinian people.
We recognize that to step into intercultural leadership means boldly speaking up as artists and culture bearers to stand in solidarity with all people who face the brutality of white supremacy, colonialism, militarism, imperialism and other forms of systemic oppression, while following and taking the lead of those most impacted.
Our ILI community calls for an immediate ceasefire against the Palestinian people.