Seyedeh Maryam Zekavat was born in Shiraz, Iran, and immigrated to the United States with her family when she was five years old. As a child, Maryam watched her mother pursue a degree in...
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans application is now open. We are looking for the 30 most promising New Americans who will go on to make a significant contribution to US society,...
Lan Li is a historian and filmmaker. Born to Chinese conservatory graduates, Lan grew up in Los Angeles surrounded by art, music, and traffic. As a full-time music enthusiast and part-time...
YIN LIis currently a Ph.D. student in neuroscience, studying visual perception and decision-making with Professor Josh Gold.His ultimate goal is to improve the understanding and treatment of...
The son of Rwandan farmers, Etienne was only seven when he and his family were caught in the Rwandan genocide. He lost more than 20 relatives including a grandfather, three uncles, and a cousin to...
Michael Pacold is an assistant professor at New York University in Fall 2016. Michael is the child of immigrants -- his father from the Czech Republic and his mother from Indonesia, where she was a...
VIVEK RAMASWAMY is the founder and CEO of Roivant Sciences. Vivek was born in Cincinnati to Indian parents. In high school he was class valedictorian, a nationally ranked junior tennis player and an...
Viviana Risca is an assistant professor and head of the new Laboratory of Genome Architecture and Dynamics at The Rockefeller University. Previously, she was a postdoc fellow in the Greenleaf Lab at...
Corinne Ulmann is a Brooklyn-based artist who works through a range of scales and media, from intimate artworks to large-scale public projects, with an emphasis on painting. Corinne received an MA...
RAFAEL VARGAS is practicing radiology in Springfield, IL Rafael was born in Morelia, Mexico, as the penultimate of nine children, and two years before his family immigrated to California. His family...