Boston Ujima Project, Inc. Welcomes Intergenerational Learning Fellow, Donna Bivens

The Boston Ujima Project, Inc. is pleased to announce Donna Bivens as our 2026-2027 Intergenerational Learning Fellow.

The Black community holds deep wisdom about living fully, loving generously, and resisting relentless assaults on humanity. As an intergenerational learning fellow, Donna will join the Ujima community to listen openly to the wisdom we hold, document and share our insights, and learn from one another. During her fellowship term with us, we will consider how knowledge passes across generations, how it is questioned and transformed, and how it can address today’s urgent challenges. 

Bivens’s experience in community building and popular education will shape her tenure as a fellow, bringing insights from her work across generations, perspectives, and backgrounds. Bivens has already begun working with us as a planning partner for our Ujima Wednesdays Series, Together: Organizing for Financial Governance Power. Her key interventions in the series have allowed for holistic, whole-human learning to take place, welcoming workshop attendees and facilitators alike as co-learners and co-teachers in the series. 

Join us in welcoming Donna to the Ujima team!

More about Donna Bivens:

Donna Bivens is a justice-centered consultant/facilitator and coach whose lifelong work bridges spirituality, anti-racism, and systemic change. Born in South Carolina and raised in Dayton, Ohio’s Black community, she moved to Boston amid the 1974 desegregation crisis—an experience that deepened her commitment to equity and community healing. 

Her leadership has included more than two decades co-directing the Women’s Theological Center, work with the Free My People African American Youth Leadership Movement, directing the Boston Busing and Desegregation Program at the Union of Minority Neighborhoods, and coordinating UMN's Howard Rye Fellows Program. As Co-Director of Women’s Theological Center (WTC) in Boston for over 20 years, Donna consulted with scores of organizations around the country to facilitate their creation of shared ownership, leadership and benefit across divides of racism and other systemic oppressions. Donna is known for her innovative work on internalized racism. Today, she supports organizations and coaches BIPOC leaders to navigate oppression, conflict, and change through healing-centered, historically and culturally grounded leadership practices and strategies.