Our Fellows
- 2020 Shift Press Fellowship
- 2020 Community Health Education Fellows
Shift Press Fellowship
The Shift Press 2020 Fellowship cohort was a group of 12 Greater Houston area high school students from all sides of town. Collectively, the published nearly 60 pieces of original work.
Adriana Brown
Houston Academy for International Studies
Anahi Yeverino
Lamar High School
DieuYen Nguyen
Carnegie Vanguard High School
Gabriel Werline
Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts
Jamie Estrada
Heights High School
Karla Torres
Scarborough High School
Madison (Maddie) Petaway
Westbury High School
Mara Nezami
Wisdom High School
Nadely Requena
Chinquapin Preparatory School
Nnennaya Ihejirikah
Houston Academy for International Studies
Pearl Reagler
Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts
Opeyemi Ogundele
Young Women’s College Preparatory Academy
Community Health Education Fellows (CHEF)
Seeing communities suffer from the effects of COVID-19 and the massive potential in young people to mitigate the spread of the virus, the City of Houston created the Community Health Education Fellows (CHEF) program.
In 2020, the CHEF program hired young people to be trained as community health workers and contact tracers. They worked in 22 Houston super-neighborhoods identified as most impacted by COVID.
Marlen Benitez
Marlen is a 25-year old mother of twins representing the Acres Homes neighborhood.
Fanesse Muyah
Fanesse is a 20-year-old student at Prairie View A&M University serving the Alief community.
Julia Bui
Julia is a 19-year-old pharmacy technician and college student representing the Golfcrest/Belfort/Reveille neighborhood.
Grace Danas
Grace is an 18-year-old high school graduate representing the Pleasantville neighborhood.
Eligio Cisneros
Eligio is a 22-year-old recent graduate of Texas A&M representing the Denver Harbor community.
Allison Moore
Allison is a 23-year-old childcare worker representing the Sunnyside neighborhood.
Jeevandeep Kaur
Jeevandeep is 21 years old and represents the Brays Oaks neighborhood.