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12.01.2023 - 19:05 / deadline.com
Filmmaker Spike Lee has partnered with The Gersh Agency to create the Spike Fellows Program, a fellowship to support students at the Atlanta University Center Consortium which consists of three Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Morehouse College, Spelman College, and Clark Atlanta University.
The Spike Fellows Program is based on the principle that access plus exposure will create opportunities. Its inaugural class will consist of five graduating students from AUCC — selected by a panel including Lee, the AUCC community and Gersh management — who will receive academic debt relief, industry mentorship, post graduate internships and full-time employment, all provided by Gersh.
Gersh’s Head of Culture Jayson Council will lead the program, to which Lee and the agency have made a multi-year commitment. Its first cycle kicks off this month.
“It is with great honor, privilege, and excitement to announce the Spike Fellows in association with my partners The Gersh Agency and the AUCC,” said Lee. “From the jump, from the get-go, I knew when (not if) I opened a crack in the door, I was bringing as many Black and Brown folks with me in front and behind the camera.”
Lee is an alum of the AUCC who graduated from Morehouse and took classes at Spelman. He says he therefore knows “firsthand” the quality of the education to be received at HBCU’s. “I am who I am because of my grandmother (Zimmie Jackson) and my mother (Jacquelyn Shelton Lee) who both graduated from Spelman College. I am who I am because of my grandfather (Richard Jackson Shelton) and my father (William Lee) who both graduated from Morehouse,” Lee reflected. “It’s on the campuses of Spelman and Morehouse where they met, fell in love, and got married. As my
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