P.D. Soros Fellowship for New Americans

Polina Nazaykinskaya: How I'm Shaping Culture

MBAchic Features PD Soros Fellow Norma Torres Mendoza

Looking Back at the Fellowship: MD/PhD Student Eric Hoyeon Song

2020 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow Eric Hoyeon Song was born in Seoul, South Korea and moved to Buena Park, California with his parents and younger brother when he was eight. Eric vividly remembers one of his first days of school in the United States; he...

Looking Back at the Fellowship: Sociology PhD Student Saúl Ramírez

Saúl Ramírez was born in the United States and raised in Santa Ana, California, a predominantly working-class, Spanish-speaking, immigrant community. Saúl’s parents had relocated from El Sabino—an impoverished, rural town in Guanajuato, México—where...

Looking Back at the Fellowship: Materials Science and Engineering PhD Student Pooja Reddy

Pooja Reddy is a scientist who is finishing up the second year of her PhD at Stanford.

Nishant Batsha on His New Novel: Mother Ocean Father Nation

For Nishant Batsha, "Mother Ocean Father Nation" is a culmination of approximately ten years of hard work, threading an intellectual line between his literary endeavors and academic pursuits, with the latter culminating in a PhD in history at...

Looking Back at the Fellowship: JD/MPP Student Carlos Adolfo Gonzalez Sierra

When Carlos Adolfo Gonzalez Sierra lost his father at the age of eight, his mother enrolled in trade school and started a pastry business to try to support Carlos and his two sisters, but no matter her effort, it was not enough. She moved her family...

Caleb Gayle on His New Book: We Refuse to Forget

Caleb Gayle's new book published this week titled, We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power (Penguin Random House) examines the history and present day struggle of African Americans to secure rightful...

Looking Back at the Fellowship: Neuroscience MD/PhD Student Mark Aurel Nagy

2020 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow Mark Aurel Nagy was born in Budapest to a Chinese mother and Hungarian father. Although he immigrated to the United States soon after, Aurel and his siblings spent summers abroad under the care of his extended families...

Looking Back at the Fellowship: Bioinformatics PhD Student Eric Sun

2020 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow Eric D. Sun was born in Pueblo, Colorado to parents who emigrated from Qingdao, China. Here he looks back on his experience with the Fellowship.