P.D. Soros Fellowship for New Americans

Uzoma Orchingwa is a Nigerian-American technologist and the cofounder and C.E.O. of Ameelio, a prize-winning nonprofit technology company that builds free technology to disrupt the predatory prison telecom industry, and accelerate the creation of a more humane and rehabilitative justice system for the 113 million Americans it impacts. Ameelio transforms America’s correctional system with technology by connecting incarcerated people with support networks; they cut recidivism and sustainably reduce prison populations. Ameelio’s ecosystem of products helps everyone — from families to corrections officials to service providers — empowering successful reentry from day one. Orchingwa holds a J.D. from the Yale Law School and an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management, as well as an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge. He has received a Gates-Cambridge Scholarship, Truman Scholarship and a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. He recently received M.I.T. Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35 Award 2022 , Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business Award 2021, TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2023. His work has been featured in The New York Times, TIME, Forbes, The Washington Post, Business Insider, Tech Crunch, Fast Company, among other outlets.