Afrofuturism & Systems Change: Reclaiming Mental Models for Child Well-Being offers a powerful framework for advancing justice by transforming the mental models that shape systems, policies, and narratives. Led by CLASP alum Alycia Hardy at the National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI), the paper centers Afrofuturism, collective imagination, and lived experience as essential to building liberatory systems. Teon Hayes and Parker Gilkesson Davis were consulted as contributors to the paper.

>>Read about NBCDI’s Afrofuturism & Systems Change project and download the executive summary and full report here.