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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. -
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.
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Aldita Amaru Gallardo
2024Aldita Amaru Gallardo seeks to meet the new moment in philanthropy by mobilizing funds to BIPOC trans movement-building and intersectional racial and gender justice, while training trans leaders to better navigate philanthropy. -
Allen Kwabena Frimpong
2024Allen Kwabena Frimpong will executive produce a multimedia anthology to educate and build public will for the demand for reparations across the Black diaspora. -
Cori Thomas
2024Cori Thomas, in partnership with Rahsaan Thomas, will curate a film festival inside San Quentin State Prison by BIPOC and system impacted people featuring short films made by both currently and formerly incarcerated people. -
Dania Rajendra
2024Dania Rajendra will lead a project focused on research, writing, and convening, aimed at expanding the ideas and practices of participatory multiracial democracy within and among diasporic communities. -
Esther A. Armah
2024Esther A. Armah will create a multimedia digital village where Black and Latino men explore masculinity through power, vulnerability, accountability, loss, and empathy. The project aims to create a healing practice of Emotional Justice. -
Joseph Phelan
2024Joseph Phelan will research and develop effective strategies for promoting racial justice narratives through internet technologies and influencer networks. -
Jungwon Kim
2024Jungwon Kim will create a cross-cultural event series and related toolkit focused on transmuting “han,” a Korean word for unresolved historical grief and rage, through ritual practices of joyful catharsis and healing. -
Kevin Powell
2024Kevin Powell will produce a documentary film exploring the age-old question, “What is a man?” through the perspectives of Black males ranging from youth to those in their 90s. -
Pushkar Sharma
2024Pushkar Sharma will advance SACRED’s work to build a just and inclusive democracy, countering the enduring alliance of white supremacist and South Asian supremacist movements that promote racial and caste superiority. -
Rahsaan Thomas
2024Rahsaan Thomas, in partnership with Cori Thomas, will curate a film festival inside San Quentin State Prison by BIPOC and system impacted people featuring short films made by both currently and formerly incarcerated people. -
Sandeep Ravindranath
2024Sandeep Ravindranath will work on a project focused on strengthening democracy and constitutional frameworks within the Indian diaspora. -
Anshantia Oso
2023Anshantia Oso will produce a style guide and accompanying educational programming for media organizations on how to speak about Black women and girls in a way that provides dignity, integrity, and belonging in representations in text and media. -
Assia Boundaoui
2023Assia Boundaoui will design an interactive installation and build out an arts-based co-creation methodology to address intergenerational trauma caused by targeted state surveillance of Muslim-American communities across the United States. -
Jeffrey Neal
2023Jeffrey Neal will address the systemic racism of current waste management systems to produce better health outcomes for BIPOC communities. -
Maysoon Zayid
2023Maysoon Zayid will create comedic content, including a feature-length mockumentary, entitled "Majdoleen," that aims to educate the public about issues of disability rights and cultural and religious belonging through humor and popular culture. -
Rev. Erica Williams
2023Rev. Erica Williams will produce a series of events serving as a national truth commission on conditions faced by poor Black women and girls. -
Ruxandra Guidi
2023Ruxandra Guidi will produce a narrative podcast, “Happy Forgetting,” that tells untold stories about racial justice victories in the United States. -
Sayu Bhojwani
2023Sayu Bhojwani will advise practitioners and create written materials on sustainable leadership practices and collective power for cohorts of women of color in electoral politics and organizing. -
Tahir Hemphill
2023Tahir Hemphill will produce a variety of data-based tools to analyze hip hop and study the racial bias implications of machine learning / AI models to address issues of how technology can reinforce racial bias and erode belonging in a democratic society. -
Tsanavi Spoonhunter
2023Tsanavi Spoonhunter will produce a documentary film entitled "Holder of the Sky" about the struggle for Indigenous sovereignty in Wisconsin. -
W. Keith Young
2023W. Keith Young will facilitate the creation of the Reparations Stakeholder Authority of Asheville, managing the distribution of monetary reparations to Black citizens and educating the public about the historical injustices of slavery and systemic racism. -
Ana Maria Archila
2022Ana Maria Archila will catalog and disseminate effective practices by leading Latinx organizations to foster belonging, cohesion, and the formation of collective identity that is culturally authentic and politically honest. -
Anjali Vats
2022Anjali Vats will focus on race and equity in intellectual property law, by developing multimedia educational resources designed to reach a range of audiences, including teachers, lawyers, policymakers, creators, and activists. -
Arjun Singh Sethi
2022Arjun Singh Sethi will co-direct a documentary that tells the stories of survivors of hate violence, based on his book, American Hate: Survivors Speak Out. -
Daresha Kyi
2022Daresha Kyi will make a documentary about the co-founders of the Black Voters Matter Fund, Cliff Albright and LaTosha Brown, their work to empower African American communities, and their role in flipping Georgia from red to blue in 2020.