Open Society Foundations Announces 2017 Soros Equality Fellows
The Open Society Foundations is pleased to announce the recipients of the Soros Equality Fellowship, a new initiative to help emerging mid-career professionals become long-term innovative leaders in the field of racial justice.
The seven fellows, chosen from over 1,000 applicants representing a diverse array of professions-from the arts and advocacy to journalism and documentary filmmaking-will work on a wide variety of ways to advance racial justice: documenting the oral histories of queer and trans people of color; tackling structural racism in the food supply; chronicling how slavery helped build a major modern institution of higher learning; and creating an ad campaign to take on distortions in America's contemporary racial narrative...