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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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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. -
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.