P.D. Soros Fellowship for New Americans

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The 2021 Fall Conference In Review

Ulcca Joshi Hansen: How I'm Shaping Culture

Author and educational thought leader Ulcca Joshi Hansen put her 20-year career in education to work in her new book The Future of Smart: How Our Education System Needs to Change to Help All Young People Thrive, which came out in September. In the...

Andrei Cherny: How I'm Shaping Culture

Andrei Cherny (2000 Fellow) served as the youngest presidential speechwriter in the nation's history for President Clinton and his book "The Next Deal," was one of the top-selling political books of 2001. But fast-forward to 2021, and Andrei is a...

Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow Rina Thomas White On Building Her Business

Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow Rina Thomas White bought Laundry South Systems & Repair, a leading commercial laundry equipment supplier, in 2020--just as the pandemic was beginning.

Two Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows Successfully Work To End The Use of Race In Kidney Disease Diagnosis

As our nation’s society continues its reckoning with the historic legacy of systematic racism and white supremacy, Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows James Diao and Naomi Tweyo Nkinsi are on the front lines of a growing movement to promote racial justice in...

Sean Y. Chen on His New Album of Ravel Music, Baby Shark, and Lessons From His Parents

Mehret Mandefro: How I'm Shaping Culture

With an MD from Harvard Medical School and a PhD in cultural anthropology from Princeton University, 2001 Fellow Mehret Mandefro is now an award-winning film and television producer, writer, and founder of the multimedia production company A51 Films...

Cellist Christine Lamprea on the Fulbright Specialist Program in Colombia

Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows are known to be explorers, pushing through doors, and starting conversations to enhance societies in America and abroad, and it’s difficult to find someone who embodies this spirit more than Cellist Christine Lamprea, who...

Mike Graglia on Founding the SynGAP Research Fund

June was SynGAP Awareness Month, and 2001 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow Mike Graglia was busy with work, sharing inspirational updates through his weekly 10-minute podcast listened to by medical researchers, MDs, and family members of individuals with...