[Themaintainers] Welcome Maintainers Movement Fellows 2023

[Lauren Dapena Fraiz]

Hello everyone,


We are very happy to announce the new cohort of Maintainers Movement
Fellows 2023! Please join us in welcoming them, and check out our
announcement <https://themaintainers.org/2023-fellows/>
<https://themaintainers.org/2023-fellows/>post or check out their bios
here.  We are excited to have a mix of practitioners from various
backgrounds , disciplines, and corners of the world.



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   Jennah Jones  is a New York-based designer pursuing a Masters in
   Architecture at Columbia GSAPP (‘24). Her approach to architecture is
   deeply informed by her background in product design, where her curriculum
   stressed human-centered design and community partnerships rooted in
   reciprocity. In her academic and professional work, Jennah investigates how
   we can change our relationship with waste and waste management through
   prioritizing environmental justice and the circular economy. She currently
   works as a waste consultant at the Center for Zero Waste Design
   <https://www.centerforzerowastedesign.org/>. Previously, she has held
   design research positions at Julia Watson LLC, the Natural Materials Lab at
   Columbia GSAPP, BlocPower, and Tesla.



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   Himani Kulkarni is a Delhi-based mental health professional with
   experience in training, content creation, and psychotherapy. Her areas of
   interest are gender and sexuality, emotional regulation, self-care, and
   body image concerns. She holds an MA in Applied Psychology and is trained
   in community mental health, trauma-focused therapy, and sexual and
   reproductive health and rights. Himani recognizes the importance of repair
   and maintenance in public mental health, more so since the global crisis
   posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. She understands that mental health is not
   only about individual well-being but also about the collective health of
   communities. Himani believes in a bio-psycho-social understanding of mental
   health and is dedicated to promoting a rights-based perspective of mental
   health and well-being.



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   Mathew Lubari is a Co-Founder & Executive Director of Community
   Creativity for Development(CC4D <https://asknet.community/#hubs>), He is
   a South Sudanese, self-driven and thought repairer and activist, maker
   <https://wikifactory.com/@mathewlubari/eco-star-extension-cable>, mentor
   and advocate for Open-Technology. At the age of 12, he watched his Dad
   (Alison) repair his radios and wristwatch and got inspired and pursued a
   career in ICT to help teach people how to repair, care and maintain their
   electronic items . In 2016, Mathew fled his country with a zip lock of
   repair tools(screwdriver, cutter and a toothbrush) and co-founded CC4D in
   2019, providing repair services to the Refugees in Rhino Camp, Uganda but
   never knew repair protects the planet from global warming until 2021 when
   he joined the Restarters <https://talk.restarters.net/latest>, #ASKnet
   <https://lead.asknet.community/> and the Global Innovation Gathering(GIG
   <https://globalinnovationgathering.org/members-map/members/mathewlubari/>
   ).


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   Terra Graziani is a researcher, organizer and tenant organizer.For the
   past ten years, Terra Graziani worked in the tenant movement in
   California in various roles, building tenant power through public
   education, community-based research, and organizing. She helps run The
   Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP) <https://antievictionmap.com/>, a
   digital storytelling documenting dispossession and resistance in
   gentrifying landscapes, and she founded the Los Angeles chapter. Terra is
   now a PhD student in Geography at the CUNY Graduate Center and a researcher
   at UCLA’s Institute on Inequality and Democracy (IID). She for the past
   three years has been part of the team that built The Tenant Power Toolkit
   <https://tenantpowertoolkit.org/>, a collaboration between The Debt
   Collective, The Los Angeles Tenants Union, AEMP, and IID that helps tenants
   fight for their homes. Terra’s work for the Maintainers Fellowship will
   look at how rental debt affects tenants’ ability to maintain their lives
   and communities.


We are very excited to collaborate with them! You will be hearing much more
about them and their work throughout the year.


Thank you,


Lauren
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