4.0 Tiny Fellowship Reflection with Alani Douglas, trubel&co Co-Founder

Building the Future of School is undoubtedly no easy task, but that's the journey the founding team at trubel&co ventured on last fall, in partnership with 4.0 Schools. Back in December, Alani Douglas and Nick Okafor, two of our co-founders, concluded the 4.0 Tiny Fellowship, spurred to reimagine education through the lens of equity, liberatory design, and joy. A daunting task, but 4.0 equipped our team with coaching, community, curriculum, and funding to make our pilots come to fruition. The Tiny Fellowship is a four month program that takes fellows from an idea with early traction to a proof point that is ready to grow. Fellows learn how to plan, run, and evaluate a recurring pilot. Fellows receive coaching from experts, a $7,000 grant, up to $3,000 after graduation, and a community of peers, all pushing themselves to run disciplined tests of their ideas with their communities.

Last spring, Alani and Nick attended a post-wrap in-person event - the Community Supper for 4.0's Bay-Area network and alumni - that kept the spark of fellowship amongst the cohort burning bright. Following last week’s event, trubel&co’s Laken Sylvander caught up with Alani to learn about the Community Supper, her experience with the fellowship, what she would share with future applicants to 4.0, and what good trubel is coming up next.

Alani Douglas, trubel&co Co-Founder and 4.0 Schools Tiny Fellow, holding the conversation cards she and Nick used to lead ice-breaker conversations at 4.0's recent Community Supper for Bay Area alumni.