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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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Hannah Drake
2022Hannah Drake and Josh Miller will expand (Un)Known Project to a national initiative featuring sites that use arts installations and experiences to honor the names and tell stories of Black enslaved people in the United States. -
Josh Miller
2022Josh Miller and Hannah Drake will expand (Un)Known Project to a national initiative featuring sites that use arts installations and experiences to honor the names and tell stories of Black enslaved people in the United States. -
Karim Ahmad
2022Karim Ahmad will advance the work of Restoring the Future, build on the report published with a network of arts organizations, and seek to design, prototype, and proliferate restorative practices across our media arts system. -
Marissel Hernández Romero
2022Marissel Hernández Romero’s project, Black and Afro-Boricua Collective Knowledge Repository, will build an archive that seeks to retrieve lived experiences, culture, and knowledge of Black and Afrodescendant Puerto Rican as a route to racial justice. -
Maurice BP-Weeks
2022Maurice BP-Weeks aims to build a new race forward movement to take on the crisis of race and debt. He will produce a book, public writing, a podcast, and public informational and training webinars with collaborators. -
Maytha Alhassan
2022Maytha Alhassan will design a storytelling model—a port-to-port, concept inception to community engagement, strategy, and service for TV shows and films geared towards activating the transformative power of art for social change. -
Michelle Schenandoah
2022Michelle Schenandoah’s project is the creation of a nationally broadcasted talk show called Rematriated Voices. Hosted by Schenandoah, the show will provide educational entertainment to the American public through an Indigenous lens. -
Set Hernandez Rongkilyo
2022Set Hernandez Rongkilyo will produce unseen, a feature-length, multi-platform documentary about Pedro, an aspiring social worker striving to provide mental health services to underserved communities.
Some fellows are not listed due to confidentiality concerns.
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Cara Page
2019Cara Page will develop a digital timeline of the medical-industrial complex in the United States that has participated in the scientific experimentation, exploitation, and surveillance of minorities. -
Cathy Dang-Santa Anna
2019Cathy Dang-Santa Anna will develop an organizing toolkit to support Asian American communities combating the rising Chinese conservatives in the United States. -
Dread Scott
2019Dread Scott will create a conceptual, community-engaged performance reinterpreting Louisiana’s German Coast Uprising of 1811—the largest rebellion of enslaved people in U.S. history. -
Ebele Ifedigbo
2019Ebele Ifedigbo will launch an initiative to promote equity in the development of the emerging cannabis workforce and foster opportunity for black communities harmed by the war on drugs. -
Favianna Rodriguez
2019Favianna Rodriguez will build the Center for Cultural Power, an artist-led platform working to help artists from marginalized backgrounds tell their stories, disseminate them—and leverage their power to drive change. -
Free Egunfemi
2019Free Egunfemi will create innovative people-powered strategies to amplify the emerging Commemorative Justice movement as an essential component of the black creative economy. -
Hanna Kim
2019Hanna Kim will make the complex history of convict leasing accessible to the public through the portrayal of the brutal story of the remains of 95 African American convict laborers that were discovered in Sugar Land, Texas. -
Imara Jones
2019Imara Jones will develop TransLash, a cross-platform storytelling effort centering on the humanity and perspectives of trans people of color. -
Maori Karmael Holmes
2019Maori Karmael Holmes will create an online platform for the exhibition and critical exploration of film and visual culture by global artists of color. -
Morning Star Gali
2019Morning Star Gali will examine efforts to remove California-based frontier memorials through the development of a toolkit that will support indigenous peoples in asserting their rights to respectful public representation. -
Reginald Moore
2019Reginald Moore will make the complex history of convict leasing accessible to the public through the portrayal of the brutal story of the remains of 95 African American convict laborers that were discovered in Sugar Land, Texas. -
Su’ad Abdul Khabeer
2019Su’ad Abdul Khabeer will develop Umi’s Archive, a multimedia project that seeks to recover untold everyday histories of Black Muslims in the United States that can inspire, empower, and provide tools to achieve racial justice. -
Tamika D. Mallory
2019Tamika D. Mallory will seek to build a framework and provide coaching to black churches and institutions to strengthen their ability to use intersectional approaches in their social justice advocacy. -
William Isom II
2019William Isom II will create Black in Appalachia, an initiative to educate the public about the history of African Americans in the development of Appalachia and its culture. -
Yi Chen
2019Yi Chen will produce First Vote, a feature-length documentary about new Americans voting and participating in democracy for the first time. -
Alexandra Bell
2018Alexandra Bell will produce a fictitious newspaper set in the future that explores issues such as police violence, housing crises, wealth inequality, and mass incarceration using a solutions journalism framework. -
Douglas Belchior
2018Douglas Belchior will develop networks of Afro Brazilian and African American organizations and individuals to mobilize against racism in the Americas. -
Janvieve Comrie
2018Janvieve Comrie will build a national network of AfroLatina organizers, and educate immigrant rights organizations about the realities faced by women who share a black Latina-immigrant identity in the United States today. -
Khaled Beydoun
2018Khaled Beydoun will build on his academic research to develop trainings to help educate and empower over-policed and under-protected Muslim communities on issues such as surveillance and counter-radicalization. -
Michael Premo
2018Michael Premo will produce a documentary film exploring race and culture in the United States. -
Michelle Cook
2018Michelle Cook will develop Divest, Invest and Protect, a project encouraging financial institutions to invest in companies that safeguard indigenous people’s rights. -
Michelle García
2018Michelle García will write Anima Sola: The Unmaking of the Frontier, a narrative nonfiction book about the United States’ entrenched frontier culture and how it affects current narratives of immigrants and Latinx. -
Michelle Morse
2018Michelle Morse will develop the Campaign Against Racism of the Social Medicine Consortium, a collective of individuals, universities, and key stakeholders fighting for health equity through education, training, and advocacy. -
Raquel Willis
2018Raquel Willis will create a project to develop the leadership of black trans women in the southern and midwestern regions of the United States. -
Scot Nakagawa
2018Scot Nakagawa will produce the Anti-Authoritarian Playbook, drawing upon the work of anti-right wing researchers, scholars, and activists to create a set of training modules and educational curricula.