Lexus Walker is a native Ashevillian, a truth teller, an artist, and an activist, whose life speaks to the power of living as our full selves. Whether DJing or digitally organizing, Lexus…
Change Your Dreams, Change Your Life: An Interview with Lexus Walker
A People’s History of 37 Montford
In November 2016, AMKRF and the Tzedek Fellowship established a physical office for the first time at 37 Montford Avenue. Currently, Asheville is one of the most rapidly gentrifying cities in the…
Research, Participate, Act: An Interview with Davia Young
Davia Young believes in the power of the collective. It’s this belief that inspires her work as a participatory action researcher, a research method that centers community inquiry and social change. Davia…
Black Love, Black Healing, Black Justice: A Conversation with Joie Lou Shakur
Joie Lou Shakur is an activist, an artist, a community organizer, a visionary, and a self-described medicine maker. In this interview with Tzedek’s Heather Laine Talley, Joie talks about prison abolition, justice and…
Bless My Heart: An Interview with Niki Maldanado
Niki Maldanado is a self-described, unapologetic queer fat femme, whose passions include sex-positive education, eradicating fatphobia, and building wildly inclusive Jewish spaces. She’s also a skin care expert and founder of The Beauty…
Creating Space to Breathe and Win: An Interview with Maya Washington
As the Tzedek Fellow for Engagement and Operations at the Campaign for Southern Equality, Maya Washington has traveled throughout the South inviting folks to contribute their time, talent, and treasure to campaigns…
Marsha Davis Joins the Tzedek Fellowship Team
Dear Friends and Collaborators, We are delighted to announce that Marsha Davis is joining the Tzedek Fellowship team as the Co-Director of Social Justice Education and Community Engagement. Marsha brings invaluable experience…
Rebuilding Black Asheville
Lexus Walker, the Tzedek Mission Advancement Fellow at the YWCA of Asheville, is native to Asheville. In her bog post, Where Are All the Black People? she shares her experience connecting with Asheville’s…
Pause for the Cause
After careful consideration, we at Tzedek have decided to take a year off from our usual programming once the current, very talented cohort of Fellows completes its fellowship year on June 30,…