P.D. Soros Fellowship for New Americans

Kao Kalia Yang (2003 Fellow) Chronicles Her Father’s Life From Laos to Minnesota in "The Song Poet"

Kao Kalia Yang's (2003 Fellow) forthcoming book, "The Song Poet," chronicles her father's life from Laos, to Thailand, to the United States. Kalia's father, as a song poet, was responsible for documenting the life and times of his community when he...

Chimène Keitner’s (2001 Fellow) New Concise Treatise on International Law Released

A Day at the Museum: Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows Get a Special New Americans Tour of the Whitney Museum of American Art

Carlos Estrada Alamo: Visiting The Tenement Museum

Carlos Estrada Alamo is a 2014 Fellow. He visited the Tenement Museum on two occasions with The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans community. Both were part of the Fellowship’s annual Fall Conference, which is a time for current Fellows...

Lei Liang: Composing Our Relationship with Guns

Lei Liang (2002 Fellow), a Pulitzer Prize finalist and professor of composition at UC San Diego, is a 2015 Creative Capital awardee for his new opera "Inheritance" on guns in the United States.

Indian-American Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow Arnav Chhabra Joins Forbes’ "30 Under 30" 2016 Class

The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships For New Americans’ Arnav Chhabra (2014 Fellow) has always been ahead of the game. He started working at the prestigious MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas when he was a teenager, and had his first...

Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships' Best of 2015

This year, we decided to reach out to our 535 Fellows to find out what were their favorite podcasts, books, films, apps, and TV shows (and even tweets) were in 2015. Only, there was one minor twist, we asked them to focus on work that was by or...

A Conversation with US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and Nadine Burke-Harris

US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy (1998 Fellow), in conversation with Nadine Burke-Harris (1999 Fellow), discussed his career path, being a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow, and the importance of finding a voice at the 2015 Fall Conference.

Immigrants Changing History: 'Hamilton' the Musical

Broadway's new star, 'Hamilton,' tells the story of one of the most important immigrants in United States history. The Fellows, who are immigrants and children of immigrants, saw the musical together in the fall of 2015; they found an overwhelming...

Giving Tuesday: Reasons To Give Back

Whether as doctors, musicians, public servants, directors, educators, scientists, composers, actors or entrepreneurs, Fellows are making an impact across the United States and world. With Giving Tuesday coming up, we've highlighted three Fellowship...