The 2025-27 Witness Foundation Fellowship Cohort Launches

Charlotte Crabbe of Cultivate Vibrance, and Lora Smothers of Joy Village.

We are proud to announce the start if our 2025 Fellowship program. Over the next two years, our new fellows, Charlotte Crabbe and Lora Smothers, will receive funding, training, and mentorship as they grow and develop their ministries.

Introducing the Fellows

Charlotte is the Founder and President of Cultivate Vibrance. Her leadership has been visionary, strategic, relational and results oriented. Her experience is diverse; from leading a nonprofit in New York City to conference and event planning to creating a DEI program that successfully created pathways for emerging leaders of color. Most importantly she is a daughter, an auntie, a runner, community builder and women of faith.

Lora is a visionary educator with 15 years of leadership experience in educational and faith-based organizations. Her career highlights include owning and directing Freedom to Grow Unschool, giving a TED Talk about natural education, hosting the Groundbreakers conference for microschool leaders, coaching school starters in the US, Canada, Kenya, and New Caledonia, and publishing a book chapter on education as a vehicle for Black liberation. In 2021, Lora began her boldest venture yet--launching the Joy Village School, Athens’ only private school centering Black joy and thriving.

What’s Next

We are so excited to join them in this journey! We are prayerfully looking forward to how God will bless their work in enriching our community. We would not be able to support their important work without your partnership.

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