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Open Society-U.S.’s Soros Equality Fellowship seeks to support individuals whom we believe will become long-term innovative leaders impacting racial justice.
We are taking a moment to pause and analyze the future of our three U.S. based fellowship programs. This means we will not be issuing a call for proposals for 2025 fellows, as we would have done this fall.
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Somi Kakoma
2018Somi will produce Petite Afrique, a project which will explore the complex intersectional identities of African immigrants in the United States through music and conversation. -
Stephanie Dinkins
2018Stephanie Dinkins will develop Not the Only One (NTOO), a multigenerational memoir of one black American family told from the perspective of an artificial intelligence with an evolving intellect. -
Alice Y. Hom
2017Alice Y. Hom, will create a digital archive of oral histories of queer and trans people of color, designed to promote and share cross-generational stories of resistance and community organizing. -
David Felix Sutcliffe
2017David Felix Sutcliffe will produce a documentary musical examining the mainstream media’s role in spreading Islamophobia, and a series of short videos exploring the role of discrimination in current events. -
Deepa Iyer
2017Deepa Iyer will create a platform to provide racial justice organizations with resources to sharpen organizing and coalition building strategies, and promote solidarity across communities. -
Hank Willis Thomas
2017Hank Willis Thomas will use the tools of a contemporary advertising agency to create a campaign aimed at exploring and discrediting distortions in the racial narrative in the United States. -
Leah Penniman
2017Leah Penniman will train farm activists of color in strategies for addressing structural advocacy in the food system, with a particular focus on farmworker rights. -
Purvi Shah
2017Purvi Shah will create a hub to promote collaboration, coalition-building, and experimentation among lawyers working on racial justice issues. -
Rachel L. Swarns
2017Rachel Swarns will write a book exploring the role slavery played in the history of Georgetown University, and the impact of that chapter on the lives and descendants of the enslaved.