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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.

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  Ana Paula Barreto
  2021
  Ana Paula Barreto (she/hers) will develop The Black Women in the Americas Policy Lab to support Black women-led policy analysis and leadership development in the United States and Brazil.
  
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  Cristina Jiménez Moreta
  2021
  Cristina Jiménez Moreta will produce a book intended to be an intervention in the narrative about the current immigration system, while calling for audiences to confront the history of white supremacy and systematic racism that has shaped it.
  
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  Glenn Magpantay
  2021
  Glenn Magpantay will create a curriculum and manuscript surveying the history of queer Asian organizing over the past 20 years to build a sustainable and robust queer Asian movement for racial justice.
  
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  Kyshun A. Webster
  2021
  Kyshun A. Webster seeks to develop a market-based solution to the caregiving crisis, ensuring low-wage workers their existing salaries when taking time off for emergency caregiving.
  
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  Loira Limbal
  2021
  Loira Limbal will direct a feature-length documentary, Sacrificial Care, that will explore the historical reasons why care work is so undervalued in the United States, from slavery to the present day.
  
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  Octaviana Trujillo
  2021
  Octaviana Trujillo will create a publicly accessible toolkit for Native American and Indigenous Peoples to protect and maintain access to sacred sites at the U.S.-Mexico border.
  
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  Sahar Aziz
  2021
  Sahar Aziz seeks to support a diverse set of academics and advocates working to better understand and combat racialized national security narratives that disproportionately impact communities of color.
  
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  Tamara Toles O’Laughlin
  2021
  Tamara Toles O’Laughlin seeks to support the long-term sustainability of environmental efforts by investing in succession strategies for people of color through leadership development, mentorship, and narrative interventions.
  
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  Zachary Norris
  2021
  Zachary Norris will write a book and other written materials examining and offering solutions to the root causes and impact of family separation within communities of color.
  
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  Anasa Troutman
  2020
  Anasa 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.
  
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  Cliff Albright
  2020
  Cliff Albright will create a framework and an accompanying tool kit to help the racial justice movement better understand and measure power.
  
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  Daniel Gómez-Mazo
  2020
  Daniel 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.
  
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  Dayana Blanco Acendra
  2020
  Dayana 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.
  
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  Hisham Aidi
  2020
  Hisham 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.
  
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  Jeremie Greer
  2020
  Jeremie 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.
  
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  Nausheen Dadabhoy
  2020
  Nausheen 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.
  
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  Rev. Osagyefo Sekou
  2020
  Rev. 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.
  
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  Saru Jayaraman
  2020
  Saru 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.
  
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  Simran Singh
  2020
  Simran 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.
  
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  Solana Rice
  2020
  Solana 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.
  
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  Virgilio Bravo
  2020
  Virgilio 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.
  
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  Zaheer Ali
  2020
  Zaheer 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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  Alex T. Tom
  2019
  Alex T. Tom will develop an organizing toolkit to support Asian American communities combating the rising Chinese conservatives in the United States.
  
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  Barbara Mumby-Huerta
  2019
  Barbara 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.
  
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  Bernadette Atuahene
  2019
  Bernadette 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.
  

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  Aldita Amaru Gallardo
  2024
  Aldita 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.
  
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  Allen Kwabena Frimpong
  2024
  Allen Kwabena Frimpong will executive produce a multimedia anthology to educate and build public will for the demand for reparations across the Black diaspora.
  
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  Cori Thomas
  2024
  Cori 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.
  
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  Dania Rajendra
  2024
  Dania 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.
  
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  Esther A. Armah
  2024
  Esther 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.
  
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  Joseph Phelan
  2024
  Joseph Phelan will research and develop effective strategies for promoting racial justice narratives through internet technologies and influencer networks.
  
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  Jungwon Kim
  2024
  Jungwon 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.
  
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  Kevin Powell
  2024
  Kevin 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.
  
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  Pushkar Sharma
  2024
  Pushkar 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.
  
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  Rahsaan Thomas
  2024
  Rahsaan 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.
  
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  Sandeep Ravindranath
  2024
  Sandeep Ravindranath will work on a project focused on strengthening democracy and constitutional frameworks within the Indian diaspora.
  
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  Anshantia Oso
  2023
  Anshantia 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.
  
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  Assia Boundaoui
  2023
  Assia 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.
  
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  Jeffrey Neal
  2023
  Jeffrey Neal will address the systemic racism of current waste management systems to produce better health outcomes for BIPOC communities.
  
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  Maysoon Zayid
  2023
  Maysoon 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.
  
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  Rev. Erica Williams
  2023
  Rev. Erica Williams will produce a series of events serving as a national truth commission on conditions faced by poor Black women and girls.
  
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  Ruxandra Guidi
  2023
  Ruxandra Guidi will produce a narrative podcast, “Happy Forgetting,” that tells untold stories about racial justice victories in the United States.
  
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  Sayu Bhojwani
  2023
  Sayu 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.
  
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  Tahir Hemphill
  2023
  Tahir 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.
  
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  Tsanavi Spoonhunter
  2023
  Tsanavi Spoonhunter will produce a documentary film entitled "Holder of the Sky" about the struggle for Indigenous sovereignty in Wisconsin.
  
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  W. Keith Young
  2023
  W. 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.
  
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  Ana Maria Archila
  2022
  Ana 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.
  
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  Anjali Vats
  2022
  Anjali 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.
  
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  Arjun Singh Sethi
  2022
  Arjun 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.
  
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  Daresha Kyi
  2022
  Daresha 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.
  

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