Born in Johnson City, New York, Brian Y. Chang is the son of immigrants from the Shanghai municipality and Shandong Province in China. Brian’s father completed his graduate studies in engineering and...
Burcu Bozkurt immigrated to the United States from Istanbul with her family when she was seven. Her parents settled in Raleigh, North Carolina, in pursuit of a brighter and more peaceful future....
The 2016 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows are a remarkable group of immigrants and children of immigrants. Learn more about their backgrounds, favorite apps and dream mentors:
Caleb Gayle is an award-winning journalist who writes about race and identity. A professor at Northeastern University, he is a fellow at New America, PEN America, Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute of...
Hyphenated American identities are as old as the nation itself. But not every journalist, or intellectual for that matter, is courageous enough to reflect on how their complicated legacies affect...
“Bacteria can be designed to act like special agents fighting disease in our bodies. . . We’re building walkie-talkies for the cells so we can both listen and talk to them,” Mikhail Shapiro (2004...
Camilo A. Romero is the founder of ReGeneración (www.regeneracion.co), a movement of young Colombians committed to empowering the next generation of civic and cultural leaders through creative...
Carel Alé is a Deputy Legal Affairs Secretary for Governor Gavin Newsom. Carel was born in Mexico City to Mexican and Cuban parents and then moved to southern California when she was a young...