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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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Alex T. Tom
2019Alex T. Tom will develop an organizing toolkit to support Asian American communities combating the rising Chinese conservatives in the United States. -
Barbara Mumby-Huerta
2019Barbara Mumby-Huerta 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. -
Bernadette Atuahene
2019Bernadette Atuahene will build on her academic research by creating a comprehensive guide and interactive information hub that communities can use to fight back against racially discriminatory property tax administration. -
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.
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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.