What is the Reclaim Community Fellowship
The Reclaim Community Fellowship is a program of the Nuclear Truth Project running throughout 2026.
The Reclaim Community Fellowship program is a reciprocal-based learning and leadership initiative for emerging community leaders from regions impacted by nuclear weapons and related processes.
The program addresses needs identified by affected communities engaged in the global disarmament and nuclear justice policy space.
Through education, networking and advocacy skill-building, the program will work intensively over the year with a cohort of six emerging affected community leaders from regions impacted by nuclear weapons testing and associated nuclear harms.
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What Reclaim will do in 2026
The 2026 Reclaim Community Fellowship is made up of six fellows from affected communities who are either connected to local organisations involved in nuclear justice work or are community endorsed.
Over a period of nine months (February – October), the Fellows have commited to monthly intensive online reciprocal training sessions, with additional time for preparation and follow up.
The aim of these seasons is to build knowledge and networks in preparation for engagement in the First Review Conference for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) at the United Nations in November/December 2026.
Fellows are committed to three hours of online sessions each month from February to October, and one hour preparation or follow up for the monthly meetings. These meetings will involve partners and guest speakers interested in knowledge exchange on topics like radiation and health, science and nuclear weapons, art of resistance and more. At the end of the year, the Fellows expect to take part in the first Reiew Conference of the TPNW. Fellows receive honorariums for their time and support of our Coordinators and Advisors.
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Our team
Our program Coordinators are working with leaders from relevant fields to bring their experience to the Fellows. The aim is to have these leaders also engage in reciprocal learning – learning from lived experience and community perspectives.
We have a small team running the Community Fellowship program including the Nuclear Truth Project team and our Reclaim Advisors who guide and facilitate the activities, liaise with the Fellows and co-educators.
We aim to create a strong cohort together, learning and growing in our work for nuclear justice.
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What we will achieve
For our six Fellows for 2026, the program will increase their capacity to engage confidently within their own communities on nuclear and related issues, as well as with local governments, regional authorities, and to participate with confidence in global negotiations, such as the TPNW.
Through a knowledge exchange model that engages people from nuclear impacted communities with experts in nuclear science, health, policy, disarmament education and media, the Fellowships will build a cohort of informed advocates as next-generation leaders for nuclear justice.
These community leaders will, in turn, share their first-hand knowledge and the lived experience expertise of their communities with the field experts and the cohort, building greater understanding and connection. We anticipate that these circles of sharing will then extend back into communities, organisations and institutions, extending the learning process.
‘Lived Experience Expertise’ is key
In our Protocols, we recognise that each community impacted by nuclear harms has unique lived experience expertise. Acknowledging the importance of lived experience is key to building the commitment to respectful, reciprocal and positive relationships, while avoiding extractive and colonial relationships.
Many cultures recognise that knowledge is lived, not just learned. The term ‘lived experience expertise’ reflects the unique capabilities and knowledge of affected community members.
It reflects the experience of community members who have lived through and been affected by nuclear harms, either directly, or intergenerationally through their parents, grandparents or other family members.
The term also recognises the powerful impact affected community members have had and continue to have on advocacy for nuclear abolition.
Meet the 2026 Reclaim Fellows
Adiya Akhmer is a graduate student and social science researcher based in Astana, Qazaqstan. She is a founding member of Steppe Organization for Peace (STOP), an independent youth-led initiative aimed at addressing the legacy of nuclear testing in Qazaqstan through advocacy, research and community-based action.
Indira Weaver was born near the Soviet Union’s main nuclear “testing” site in the former Semipalatinsk region of Qazaqstan and has lived in England since 2006. She advocates for nuclear justice and collaborates with renowned Qazaq Mouth Artist, Karipbek Kuyukov, to raise awareness and support their affected community. This includes fundraising for the Children’s Home in Semey, which provides care for babies born with physical and neurological conditions, potentially linked to the region’s nuclear legacy.
Randon John is a member of the nuclear-affected community of Bikini Atoll — the site of the Castle Bravo test. He is the Director for Education & Public Awareness, in the National Nuclear Commission Republic of the Marshall Islands.
Corinne Salter, PhD was born in the Marshall Islands to parents of Marshallese and Kiribatese descent. In pursuit of serving Marshallese communities, she relocated to Northwest Arkansas, where the largest Marshallese U.S. diaspora is located. She has a passion for climate and environmental education and uses her PhD in environmental science to raise awareness around how the U.S. shared nuclear legacy in the Marshall Islands intersects with climate adaptation, environmental health, and justice on all fronts. She is a project consultant and Youth for Nuclear Justice fellow at the Marshallese Educational Initiative.
Tevaearai Puarai is a young leader and activist from Māòhi Nui, a territory whose families and ecosystems still bear the consequences of nuclear colonialism. Since 2023, he has served as Executive Director of the NGO Moruroa e Tātou, standing alongside victims and survivors in their fight for recognition and full reparation. He has repeatedly advocated at the United Nations for truth and justice, raising the voices of those whose silence was imposed. Convinced that education, intergenerational dialogue, and international solidarity are powerful tools for change, he works to advance memory and dignity while empowering and strengthening his community, especially the younger generation.
Tiaremāòhi Tairua is a Māòhi Nui leader and nuclear activist from Bora-Bora. She’s also the president of the Moruroa e Tātou branch committee based on her island and the whole group of Hitiraro islands. She is a radio presenter and communicator using artistic forms of expression and leads community workshops in the Hitiraro Archipelago.
Reclaim Community Fellowship Advisors
KARINA LESTER
TAMATOA TEPUHIARII
AIGERIM SEITENOVA
