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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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Anasa Troutman
2020Anasa Troutman will develop and employ a cultural framework to shift the narrative and mechanics of local economies, specifically in African American communities in Southern cities. -
Cliff Albright
2020Cliff Albright will create a framework and an accompanying tool kit to help the racial justice movement better understand and measure power. -
Daniel Gómez-Mazo
2020Daniel Gómez-Mazo will develop a transnational network of activists focused on the use of legal mobilization for racial justice. This project will be co-created with Dayana Blanco Acendra. -
Dayana Blanco Acendra
2020Dayana Blanco Acendra will develop a transnational network of activists focused on the use of legal mobilization for racial justice. This project will be co-created with Daniel Gómez-Mazo. -
Hisham Aidi
2020Hisham Aidi will create a web documentary series and book project to study the rise of Afro-Arab and Amazigh migration and activism in the United States over the last 25 years. -
Jeremie Greer
2020Jeremie Greer will build “Liberation in a Generation,” a movement support project centering the economic liberation of people of color, so that, within one generation, the U.S. has an economy where all people of color belong and have equal opportunity. -
Nausheen Dadabhoy
2020Nausheen Dadabhoy will direct a feature-length documentary, titled An Act of Worship, which follows the lives of three Muslim women as they find their place in community activism at a time when Islamophobia is sharply on the rise. -
Rev. Osagyefo Sekou
2020Rev. Osagyefo Sekou will create an organizing hub to train and support organizers and religious communities working across social movements in Memphis, Tennessee, and the greater Mississippi Delta region. -
Saru Jayaraman
2020Saru Jayaraman will address income inequality through development of a new narrative rejecting the undervaluing of subminimum wage workers and demanding instead a full, fair minimum wage for all. -
Simran Singh
2020Simran Singh will write a book titled, More of This Please: Self-Care for the Soul from Sikh Wisdom, highlighting the marginalization and racialized violence experienced by Sikhs in the United States. -
Solana Rice
2020Solana Rice will build a movement support project centering the economic liberation of people of color, so that within one generation, the United States has an economy where all people of color belong and have equal opportunity. -
Virgilio Bravo
2020Virgilio Bravo will produce a documentary that chronicles and disseminates a blueprint for a new model of democracy through the lens of the 2020 Chilean revolution. -
Zaheer Ali
2020Zaheer Ali will create “Make It Plain: Storytelling and Listening for Social Change,” a Muslim community-based participatory storytelling and listening narrative project that is scalable and can be replicated around the country.
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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.