Born in Philadelphia, 2018 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow Andrea (Sylvia) Biscoveanu is the daughter of Romanian immigrants. Fearing for their safety after participating in the anti-communist revolution...
After years of advocacy and education around crime and punishment, 2014 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow Bianca Tylek recently founded Worth Rises, formerly the Corrections Accountability Project, at the...
This summer, David Noah is leaving his current job to plan, design, and launch a brand new, computer science high school in the South Bronx. The son of immigrants from Iraq and Greece, David has...
Born in Madison, Wisconsin, 2018 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow Angela Tian Ma is the daughter of Chinese immigrants. Seeing how her parents overcame language, cultural, and financial barriers to build a...
2018 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow Julissa Muñiz is a PhD candidate in human development and social policy at Northwestern University where she studies teaching and learning in the carceral context,...
When did you begin working on Objects of Hunger? I have a terrible memory and an even worse time keeping papers and documents organized, but many of the poems were written in 2014. Since many of...
As Thuy Thi Nguyen’s elementary school teachers in New Orleans sent home increasingly complex homework, her eager parents were able to help her less and less. Thuy's parents had risked everything...
Born in Nairobi, Kenya, 2018 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow Joel Sati immigrated to the United States at the age of nine. Early on, Joel's mother worked night and double shifts at a Kennesaw, Georgia gas...
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans provides two years of funding for outstanding graduate students who are immigrants and children of immigrants. After two years the Fellows join a...
You’re now finishing up the second year of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship program. Has the Fellowship been what you expected? These past two years as a PD Soros Fellow have exceeded my wildest...