together we can make CHANGE
CONNECTING ROOTS,
STRENGHTENING IDENTITY
Your invested support drives every stage of FullCircle’s development. Thank you for helping us create a platform that will make a real difference in our community.
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Your invested support drives every stage of FullCircle’s development. Thank you for helping us create a platform that will make a real difference in our community.
Here’s how your donation is making a difference:
- Listen to community members to learn what they need
- Improve website Based on Participant Feedback
- Build the First Version for Launch
- Opening FullCircle to the Public
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Your invested support drives every stage of FullCircle’s development. Thank you for helping us create a platform that will make a real difference in our community. Here’s how your donation is making a difference:
Frequently Asked Questions
How can I get involved with FullCircle?
Please donate to support our work or contact us directly with ideas, questions and feedback through our interest form!
How do you define the various African Diasporas?
The world has seen many migrations over history, forced and voluntary. Descendants of enslaved Africans are one diaspora, spread mostly throughout the Caribbean and the Americas (including the USA). Other African diasporas include more recent, voluntary migrants and their offspring, who live all around the world.
How are FullCircle and FamilyCircle connected?
FullCircle, a 501 (c) 3 created in 2021, aims to digitally connect the global African diasporas, both culturally and as markets for goods and services. As a first step, we are creating a for-profit social benefit entity, FamilyCircle, to offer an app to be used by African-American families as they plan and document their family reunions. We seek donors for FullCircle and investors for FamilyCircle.
What was the inspiration for FullCircle?
As she wrote a bilingual blog about Rio de Janeiro’s urban issues, Julia Michaels became aware of the city’s African past. Rio received about 2 million of the 5 million enslaved Africans taken to Brazil. Thus it is the most important port in diaspora history (the future USA received 400,000 enslaved Africans, total). When Julia suggested a larger venue to a Rio museum founder, that founder made a bigger suggestion: connecting all the places in the world involved in enslaving and trafficking Africans, from the 15th to the 19th century.
In 2020, Julia mentioned this stirring idea to her old friend and Atlanta resident Mike Wittenstein, lamenting the impossibility of making it real during the pandemic. “Why not do this digitally?” asked Mike. Thus FullCircle was born and the two friends, who had studied Portuguese together in Rio de Janeiro in 1978, became co-founders. Karen Routt joined the team in 2022 and became Executive Director.
Who has FullCircle previously partnered with?
FullCircle has co-hosted webinars with Brazil’s Museum of the Republic and exhibitions with Roots101. Click here to learn more about our past events.
Where is FullCircle based?
FullCircle is based in the USA. It intends to operate internationally, as the digital platform comes into existence.
Frequently Asked Questions
How can I get involved with FullCircle?
Please donate to support our work or contact us directly with ideas, questions and feedback through our interest form!
How do you define the various African Diasporas?
The world has seen many migrations over history, forced and voluntary. Descendants of enslaved Africans are one diaspora, spread mostly throughout the Caribbean and the Americas (including the USA). Other African diasporas include more recent, voluntary migrants and their offspring, who live all around the world.
How are FullCircle and FamilyCircle connected?
FullCircle, a 501 (c) 3 created in 2021, aims to digitally connect the global African diasporas, both culturally and as markets for goods and services. As a first step, we are creating a for-profit social benefit entity, FamilyCircle, to offer an app to be used by African-American families as they plan and document their family reunions. We seek donors for FullCircle and investors for FamilyCircle.
What was the inspiration for FullCircle?
As she wrote a bilingual blog about Rio de Janeiro’s urban issues, Julia Michaels became aware of the city’s African past. Rio received about 2 million of the 5 million enslaved Africans taken to Brazil. Thus it is the most important port in diaspora history (the future USA received 400,000 enslaved Africans, total). When Julia suggested a larger venue to a Rio museum founder, that founder made a bigger suggestion: connecting all the places in the world involved in enslaving and trafficking Africans, from the 15th to the 19th century.
In 2020, Julia mentioned this stirring idea to her old friend and Atlanta resident Mike Wittenstein, lamenting the impossibility of making it real during the pandemic. “Why not do this digitally?” asked Mike. Thus FullCircle was born and the two friends, who had studied Portuguese together in Rio de Janeiro in 1978, became co-founders. Karen Routt joined the team in 2022 and became Executive Director.
Who has FullCircle previously partnered with?
FullCircle has co-hosted webinars with Brazil’s Museum of the Republic and exhibitions with Roots101. Click here to learn more about our past events.
Where is FullCircle based?
FullCircle is based in the USA. It intends to operate internationally, as the digital platform comes into existence.