Just Futures Fellowship (JFF) 2025

About the Fellowship

Just Futures Pahal (JFP) is proud to announce the selection of seven talented young Dalit women from Bagmati Province as its new Just Futures Fellows (JFF). These individuals are: Sarina Dyola, Manjita Pariyar, Pramila B K, Kanchan Katuwal, Radhika Roka, Manika Biswakarma and Sangita Mizar.

Rooted in the core ethos of "Weaving our own stories" (जिमिगु बाखं जिमिसं हे ग्वये), this fellowship prioritizes the lived experiences, love, joy, aspirations, and knowledge of Dalit women. It is designed to creatively explore new meanings and connections between their invaluable community-based experiences and national and global learnings. These community-based, talented Dalit women, as Just Futures Fellows at the heart of JFP, offer distinct learning spaces for reimagining narratives surrounding caste questions in Nepal and beyond.

Through creatively designed interdisciplinary seminars, immersive workshops, and practical field-based studies, facilitated by dynamic JFP faculty and collaborations with reputed scholars and institutions worldwide, the JFF will critically deepen the understandings of all involved. The new fellows, active in fields ranging from journalism and writing to teaching and political life, will embark on a journey of learning and analysis, exploring their personal and social experiences as Dalit women. The Fellowship will focus on both the constitutive and intersectional questions involving caste, class, gender, sexuality, and inclusive democracy within Nepal and globally.