Fletcher Foundation

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The Fletcher Foundation is a nonprofit foundation that supports civil rights, education, and environmental education. The foundation supports efforts to develop a more just society with more equal opportunities for more of the population primarily by leveraging the financial and non-financial contributions of Fletcher Asset Management, the Fletcher Family including New York financier and philanthropist Alphonse Fletcher, Jr., and others. Fletcher Asset Management has been accused of fraud related to its management of funds and the value of pledges Fletcher's charitable pledges are in dispute.

A 1987 graduate of Harvard University, Fletcher worked in investment banking and in 1991 founded Fletcher Asset Management. A Harvard Class Marshal, Fletcher endowed a University Professorship at his alma mater, first held by philosopher Cornel West and now held by literary critic Henry Louis Gates, Jr. In 2004, in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education, the Fletcher Foundation announced the creation of the Alphonse Fletcher, Sr. Fellowship program, described by foundation chair Henry Louis Gates, Jr. as "Guggenheims for race issues." The inaugural class of Fletcher Fellows, each awarded $50,000, was selected in 2005.

2005 Inaugural Fletcher Fellows

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Elizabeth Alexander, poet and African-American studies professor, Yale University

Devon Carbado, law professor at University of California, Los Angeles

Kathleen Cleaver, author and former Black Panther Party activist

Stanley Crouch, cultural critic and author

Roland Fryer, economist and member of Harvard Society of Fellows

Anita Hill, civil rights attorney and law professor Brandeis University

Nina Jablonski, biological anthropologist and author of Skin

Glenn Ligon, artist, New York

Arthur Mitchell, founder of the Dance Theatre of Harlem

Robert Parris Moses, educator and civil rights leader

Thomas Sugrue, civil rights historian and professor at University of Pennsylvania

Deborah Willis, photographer and documentarian and professor at New York University

2006 Fletcher Fellows

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Lawrence Bobo, race relations scholar and professor at Stanford University

Fatimah L.C. Jackson, professor of anthropology, University of Maryland

Randall Kennedy, professor of law, Harvard University

Miranda Massie, civil rights attorney, Detroit, Michigan

Lorna Simpson, artist, New York

Anna Deavere Smith, performance artist, actress, and University Professor, New York University

Valerie Smith, professor of English and director African-American Studies Program, Princeton University

Margaret Beale Spencer, professor of education, University of Pennsylvania

Brent Staples, award-winning journalist, New York Times

Patricia Sullivan, associate professor of history, University of South Carolina

Loic Wacquant, professor of sociology and boxer, University of California, Berkeley

2007 Fletcher Fellows

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Hinton Als, journalist and literary critic

Cheryl Finley, assistant professor of art history, Cornell University

Joy A. James, professor of Africana Studies, Williams College

Kenneth W. Mack, professor of law, Harvard University

Charles Payne, professor of sociology and education, Duke University

2008 Fletcher Fellows

Clayborne Carson, professor of history, Stanford University

Kimberle Crenshaw, professor of law, UCLA and Columbia Law School

Kellie Jones, associate professor of art history and archaeology, Columbia University

Stacy L. Leeds, professor of law, University of Kansas

2009 Fletcher Fellows

Emily Bernard, associate professor of English, University of Vermont

Rachel Devlin, associate professor of history, Tulane University

Llewellyn M. Smith, filmmaker

Keivan G. Stassun, associate professor of physics and astronomy, Vanderbilt University

2010 Fletcher Fellows

Mia Bay, associate professor of history, Rutgers University

Richard Thompson Ford, professor of law, Stanford University

Tyrone Forman, associate professor of sociology, Emory University

2011 Fletcher Fellows

Ian Haney-López, professor of law, University of California, Berkeley

Sharon D. Raynor, associate professor of English, Johnson C. Smith University

Daniel J. Sharfstein, associate professor of law, Vanderbilt University

Rachel Swarns, correspondent, The New York Times

Jonathan Holloway , professor of history and African American studies, Yale University

2012 Fletcher Fellows

Jane Dailey, associate professor in the Department of History, the College, and the Law School University of Chicago Law School, University of Chicago

Trey Ellis, assistant professor at the School of the Arts, Columbia University School of the Arts, Columbia University

Rucker Johnson, associate professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley

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