The Global Freedom Fellowship is housed at INN’s hub in Cape Town, South Africa, a place whose history was forged on movement-organizing behind bars—where Nelson Mandela famously declared, “In my country you go to prison first, and then you become president.” From Mandela’s long walk to freedom to Robert Sobukwe’s journey through solitary confinement, prisons of South Africa have been the unofficial universities of civil rights struggle, where the genius of a nation’s legacy was honed and nurtured. The Global Freedom Fellowship, the first of its kind, thus leverages South Africa’s legacy as a global justice pioneer to impact and champion justice-involved leaders from across the world.
Via the GFF, INN is building and nurturing a transnational community of leaders with lived experience of the justice system, whom we support in their work and keep bonded together across borders.
