YOONHEE PATRICIA HA is a MD/PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Her doctoral studies are in epidemiology. Yoonhee was born in the US to emigrants from South Korea who...
YULIA RYZHIK is Assistant Professor of English (CLTA) at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Harvard University, where she was the recipient of a Mellon...
Yulia was born in Moscow. She immigrated with her mother to the US in 1984 and is now an American citizen. Yulia received her MM from Bard College's Graduate Program of the vocal arts in 2008. She...
Rose was born in Beijing, China, and immigrated to the US at the age of 9. At the age 16, she won a full-tuition scholarship to study at Bard College at Simon's Rock, where she pursued biochemistry,...
Yung holds an MM from the Manhattan School of Music. He came to the US from Korea when he was 13 and holds a green card. He now resides in South Korea where he has a tenure-track position at Yonsei...
Born to a Japanese father and a Romanian mother, Yuno Iwasaki grew up in a small town in central Japan. Yuno came to the United States as a high school sophomore to attend Groton School, a boarding...
Yuxi was born in Germany to Chinese parents who both switched from careers in physics to computer programming so that they could better support their family. After early years with his grandparents...
Yvette Keong was born and raised in Sydney, Australia, after her parents emigrated from China looking for the possibility of a greater life. Yvette now resides in New York City, where she won the...
ZAHIR DOSSA is the co-founder and CEO of Function of Beauty. The Fellowship supported his work towards a PhD in sustainable development at MIT. Zahir was born in Canada before moving to Texas to...