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The Open Society Fellowship is designed to support individuals pursuing innovative and unconventional approaches to fundamental open society challenges.
Since 2008, the Open Society Fellowship has supported heterodox thinkers and practitioners from around the world. The fellowship helps elevate new voices to take part in global conversations on the most pressing issues of our time—from human rights and social justice to climate change and inequality—and provide established public intellectuals new audiences for their work. This year’s fellows will be chosen from selected areas, each home to a dynamic community of thinkers engaged in high-level critical debate.
We look forward to announcing the latest group of fellows in spring 2025.
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Amelia Evans
2019Amelia Evans, an international human rights lawyer, will draw on her experience with multi-stakeholder initiatives to debunk the myth of the “ethical corporation.” -
Bama Athreya
2019Bama Athreya will develop a long-term communications strategy to help workers in the “gig” economy overcome some of the main structural disadvantages which often go ignored by policymakers. -
Delilah Rothenberg
2019Delilah Rothenberg, a finance professional, will co-create private equity fund models to narrow compensation ratios between fund managers, executives, and workers and combat systemic risks like inequality and climate change. -
Fumba Chama
2019Fumba Chama, a musician and activist, will produce an album of 10 new and original songs about economic inequality in Zambia. -
Imani Countess
2019Imani Countess will build a robust new social movement to connect groups working against illicit financial flows with new constituencies in the United States, including African diaspora activists and people of color faith communities. -
Imani Jacqueline Brown
2019Imani Jacqueline Brown, an activist, writer, and organizer, will illuminate fossil fuel corporations’ responsibility for decades of economic and environmental injustice in Louisiana by using advanced mapping techniques. -
Luciana Zaffalon
2019Luciana Zaffalon will investigate how court and legal systems around the world exacerbate inequality and convert her findings into a toolkit for overcoming structural biases. -
Mark Blyth
2019Mark Blyth will write a book about policies to mitigate generational inequality and help those in the “bottom 80 percent” of the U.S. economy increase their assets. -
Nathan Schneider
2019Nathan Schneider, assistant professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, will work to promote specific entrepreneurial and policy strategies for increasing user co-ownership of online platforms. -
Paul Rissman
2019Paul Rissman will develop a variety of strategies for pressuring U.S.-based investment advisers into taking actions to mitigate economic inequality. -
Raphaële Chappe
2019Raphaële Chappe will produce a book and a series of videos to show how the unequal distribution of risk between corporations and individuals helps fuel economic inequality. -
Trebor Scholz
2019Trebor Scholz will use a multipronged strategy—which includes writing books, engaging with diverse communities, and building new institutions—to promote integrating the cooperative model into the digital economy. -
William Lazonick
2019William Lazonick will write a book and a series of articles about how a range of harmful corporate behaviors have been legitimized by a philosophy in which maximizing shareholder value is considered as an end in itself. -
Zachariah Mampilly
2019Zachariah Mampilly will write a book about the rise of social movements throughout Africa focused on democratic reform and combating economic inequality. -
Bálint Magyar
2015Bálint Magyar, a former Minister of Education for Hungary, was looking at several post-communist states, whose actions are warped by the concentration of power and wealth in the hands of corrupt political “families.” -
Euclides Gonçalves
2015Euclides Gonsalves looked at the creative ways citizens and government officials in Mozambique put bureaucratic documents to work to advance their own interests. -
James Murombedzi
2015James Murombedzi was looking at how land expropriations affect rural farmers and local governance in Africa. -
Liz Evans
2015Liz Evans was producing a guide to help urban communities change how addicts are seen and to improve methods of treatment. -
Lucia Nader
2015Lucia Nader was looking at how rights-based groups in Brazil, the United States, and Europe have responded to the demands of mass protest movements. -
Pablo Ortellado
2015Pablo Ortellado’s project was looking at why international protest movements often reject representative government while simultaneously demanding better public services from the state—and what can be done about it. -
Sasha Polakow-Suransky
2015Sasha Polakow-Suransky was writing a book on the long-term consequences of immigration—and the political backlash against it—in France, Denmark, Holland, South Africa, and Australia. -
Shekhar Singh
2015Shekhar Singh, an activist and academic, was exploring the mixed success of Right to Information laws in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh in achieving accountability from governments and other actors. -
Evgeny Morozov
2008As an Open Society Fellow, Evgeny Morozov worked on his critically acclaimed book The Net Delusion, which punctures popular myths about the power of the internet to undermine authoritarian regimes. -
Juanita Leon
2008As an Open Society Fellow, Juanita Leon launched an investigative news blog in Colombia. -
Mark Schoofs
2008As an Open Society Fellow, Mark Schoofs worked on a book that explores the historical, economic, political, and cultural forces that have shaped the Russian and South African AIDS epidemics.