The Alston / Bannerman Fellowship Program is committed to advancing progressive social change by helping to sustain long-time activists of color. (alstonbannerman.org/generalinformation.html)

In fact, To qualify for an Alston/Bannerman Fellowship, you must: ...be a person of color (alstonbannerman.org/eligibility.html)

One of their 2003 Fellows ( link) was Emma Lozano

Emma Lozano got her start in organizing in the 1970s with Chicago's independent Latino political movement. She founded Centro Sin Fronteras in 1987 to defend the rights of undocumented Mexican immigrants. At the same time, Pueblo Sin Fronteras began organizing neighborhood residents, using hunger strikes and demonstrations to win construction of the city's first community-based bilingual school. Ever since, Sin Fronteras has played a leading role on issues ranging from school reform to legalization of the undocumented to getting the U.S. Navy out of the Vieques, Puerto Rico.

"How we struggle is as important as what we achieve. We've adopted a model of grassroots democracy called the asamblea, which gives every community member, documented or not, an equal voice. We strive to be examples of a new humanity in the course of our day to day struggles."