Cherishing ballroom history, building connections, teaching financial literacy, and inspiring community change.
The Crystal LaBeija Organizing Fellowship (CLOF) is an intensive, 1-year fellowship, open to Black and Brown, trans, gender non-conforming, and non-binary individuals who belong to the ballroom community.
CLOF aims to empower fellows across the nation to address the issues impacting the lives of transgender women, transgender men, gender non-conforming, and non-binary people in the house ball community via community building, economic empowerment, advocacy, and activism through wellness and social justice lenses.
2022 Crystal LaBeija Organizing Fellowship
Applications for the 2022 cohort are open! Applications are due November 15th, 2021. Submit your application today! Highlights of the program include:
Professional mentorship
Holistic leadership development by ballroom community members
Join a national network of community organizers, activists, scholars, and more
All fellow will be trans and gender-nonconforming people of color who are also ballroom community members.
Click here to access the application
Visit CrystalLaBeijaof.org or send us an email at clofellowship@gmail.com for more information!