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🎉 Drumroll, please! Meet the 2024
#PDSoros
Fellows!
🗽 Selected from 2,300+ applicants, these 30 exceptional graduate students are changing the game in their respective fields. Click the link to get to know these trailblazers!
#ImmigrantExcellence
🎓🎉
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We launch our application for the 2022 Fellowship on Tuesday! Let the immigrant and children of immigrants graduate students in your life know.
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We're thrilled to announce the 2021 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows: 30 New Americans—immigrants and children of immigrants—pursuing graduate school, who exemplify the extraordinary contributions of immigrants to the United States. 🗽🇺🇸🎓
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The future is bright! Announcing the 2022 PD Soros Fellows:
🗽 30 immigrants & children of immigrants
🎓 Graduate students studying everything from medicine to music
🇺🇸 Selected for their potential to make significant contributions to the USA
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We're thrilled to announce the 2019 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows: 30 immigrants and children of immigrants pursuing graduate school who were selected for their potential to give back to the United States. 🇺🇸
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We're thrilled to announce our 2020 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows: 30 New Americans—immigrants and children of immigrants—pursuing graduate school, who were each selected for their extraordinary potential to give back to the United States.
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Big news: our very own PDSoros Fellow
@vivek_murthy
will lead President-elect
@JoeBiden
’s Covid-19 task force. Vivek is the former US Surgeon General.
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“Immigrants have started more than half (319 of 582, or 55%) of America’s startup companies valued at $1 billion or more.”
Just a friendly reminder!
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Meet 2022 PD Soros Fellow Osaremen Okolo, the child of Nigerian immigrants, who is currently a policy advisor for public health & equity for the White House Office on COVID-19 Response. She'll start her PhD at Harvard this fall as a Presidential Scholar.
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Today we announced our newest class of Fellows in the
@nytimes
. Read about them here:
#immigrantexcellence
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Congratulations to the 2018 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows! Selected for their potential to make significant contributions to the USA, the 30 Fellows are all outstanding immigrants & children of immigrants.
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Congratulations to 2021 PDSoros Fellow,
@a_almanakly
! Aziza is the child of immigrants from Syria and is a graduate of
@cooperunion
and is now a PhD student in engineering and computer science at
@MIT
.
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The best moment. 🗽🥼🩺❤️Congratulations
@ChidiAkusobi
!
#MatchDay2022
The moment I found out. Surrounded my by community. Eight years of my MD-PhD journey crystallized into this moment. My heart is so full 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
#MatchDay2022
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@Harvard_Law
Professor and 2001
#PDSoros
Fellow
@JeannieSuk
discusses the intersecting histories of eugenics and abortion, and the looming battle over fetal personhood in her newest piece for the
@NewYorker
.
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$90,000 in
#graduateschool
tuition and stipend support? Sign me up! Watch our latest info. session, which features two of our current Fellows, to learn about how to apply for our
#Fellowship
program:
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“Being an undocumented immigrant meant my options to pursue higher education were extremely limited…Today I am a Latino neuroscientist” -
#PDSoros
&
@TheOpEdProject
#PublicVoices
Fellow &
@cientificolatin
co-founder
@latinodeciencia
Via
@USATODAY
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Tomorrow we announce the 2022 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows! It's a celebration of not only each Fellow, but their academic and immigration journeys and our country's identity as a nation of immigrants. 🎓🇺🇸🗽
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🚨The application for the 2024
#PDSoros
Fellowship is OPEN!
>Up to $90,000 towards full-time graduate or professional degrees in 2024-2025
>For immigrants & children of immigrants 30 or younger
>An incredible community of 775 New Americans
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Are you ready to meet the newest class of Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows?
30 outstanding New American graduate students from all over the country and world studying everything from poetry, to physics, to law, to painting.
We'll introduce you on Tuesday!
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This recent article by
@Harvard_Law
professor & PDSoros Fellow
@JeannieSGersen
has resounding importance across borders. Thank you for translating,
@NewYorker
!
.
@NewYorker
is just amazing for translating my article into Korean and Japanese, understanding the importance of war memory and responsibility to facts, for Korea-Japan relations going forward. . Please share. Thank you!
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Thank you to everyone who applied for the 2022 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships! Everyone will hear from us by January 14th about whether you have been selected as a finalist. After interviewing 77 finalists, we will select our 2022 Fellows and notify them in mid-March!
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Congrats to PDSoros's
@Arash_Fere
, an immigrant from Iran, who graduated with his MD & MHS from
@YaleMed
this week! Arash was hooded by his mentor
@adardik
and will be doing his residency in vascular surgery at
@StanfordSurgery
.
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“Latinos make up less than 5 percent of tenured faculty and under 6 percent of tenure-track faculty at doctoral institutions.”
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Congratulations to PDSoros Fellow
@vivek_murthy
who just hours ago was confirmed as the US Surgeon General by the Senate.
#NewAmericans
🇺🇸🗽🇺🇸
I'm deeply grateful to be confirmed by the Senate to serve once again as your Surgeon General. We've endured great hardship as a nation over the past year, and I look forward to working with you to help our nation heal and create a better future for our children.
#TogetherWeRise
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✨The first week of finalist interviews is done! A huge congratulations to the 43 finalists who gave it their all and a big thank you to our amazing panelists. We look forward to welcoming and meeting the second group of finalists this week. ✨
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Our application deadline was yesterday.
There aren’t words to express our gratitude to our applicants who pour themselves into the application—who share not only their stories, but also the stories of their families, their ancestors, their cultures, their countries and lands…
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About 8 years ago, the thought of training as a physician-scientist would have been absolutely outlandish to me. I am grateful for the twists and turns of life, and my mentor Dr.
@AnnaGreka
(
@GrekaLab
) from whom I saw the power of research and medicine. - PD Soros’s Esther Elonga
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We took out a full page in ad in today’s
@nytimes
to announce the Class of 2018 & celebrate our 20 year anniversary! We’ve supported 625
#NewAmericans
from more than 80 countries. The legacy continues!
#immigrantexcellence
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Do you know an outstanding immigrant or child of immigrants who is pursuing graduate school? Tell them about
@PDSoros
, a $90k fellowship that celebrates
#NewAmericans
:
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🎓American Dream 🎓Congratulations to PD Soros Fellow
@RoxanaDaneshjou
on her tenure track faculty position at
@Stanford
! Roxana n is the child of immigrants from Iran.
This is for my parents who escaped Iran, faced so many challenges and uncertainty just so I would be here. Today, in front of them, I signed my offer for a tenure track faculty position
@Stanford
in Biomedical Data Science
@StanfordDBDS
and Dermatology.
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2021 PDSoros Fellows
@JamesADiao
&
@NNkinsi
have been central players in a multifaceted effort to reevaluate and end the use of race in kidney disease diagnosis, and their work recently paid off in a big way...
:
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Are you an immigrant or child of immigrants applying to a graduate or professional school this year? Look into our $90k fellowship! You can also be in the first two years of your program to be eligible.
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The one person who has met every single
#PDSoros
Fellow & finalist over the past 20 years? Chris Smith! He’s taken every single finalist’s headshot. Chris will be joining us at
#PDSoros20
not as a photographer, but as one of our special guests! ❤️
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Ok everyone let’s give it up for our applicants who are in their final stretch of working on the application ahead of the November 1 deadline. You’ve got this applicants! 👏🏽👏🏿👏🏼
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For every single one of our applicants there are at least THREE people who are taking the time to write a recommendation on their behalf. A huge shoutout to the recommenders out there who are supporting New Americans who are pursuing graduate schools and looking to do big things!
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At this time, all applicants have been notified of their updated status in our 2021 cycle. Congrats to the 77 finalists and a huge thank you to the nearly 2,500 applicants who shared their dreams and stories with us. We know this is tough news in a tough period.
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Congratulations to PD Soros Fellow Woong Hwang who matched into the anesthesiology program at
@BrighamWomens
! Woong was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea and immigrated to the US at age 15. A
@UofR
graduate, Woong is a
@YaleMed
MD/PhD student.
#MatchDay
🎉🗽🥼
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When it comes to mental health in graduate school, who on Twitter should we be following?
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Congratulations to 2023
#PDSoros
Fellow
@KKajderowicz
! Kat, the child of immigrants from Poland, is a cellular & molecular neuroscience PhD student at
@MIT
and the founder of
@DnaDeviants
. 🇺🇸🧬🗽
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✨2004
#PDSoros
Fellow Nusrat Choudhury will be the first female Muslim and the first Bangladeshi American federal judge in the United States!
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“Being an immigrant, being from a low-income family, being a minority– but also having an intellectual interest in science–medicine seemed to be the way to fill both those roles at the same time without feeling like I’m giving up one thing for the other.” - Sheantel Reihl
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Congrats to our 77 finalists and a big thank you to ALL of our applicants. Everyone has been notified. We hope the application process was a meaningful time to reflect on your dreams and what it means to be a New American. Remember: Many of our Fellows applied more than once! 🗽
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Just a friendly reminder to our applicants ahead of the 11/1 deadline:
Imposter syndrome is real. We know thinking about graduate school, scholarships, and fellowships can be intimidating.
But you belong, you can do this, and our institutions need you.
APPLY!
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Welcome to our 2022 (tweeting) PD Soros Fellows:
@saianandraj
@AnisBarmada
@trangofthought
@fernanda_dltr
@HariSri108
@lauramnicolae
@andreww_lu
@macias_arturo
@lailaujayli
@LinKingson
@MussabAliJC
@osaremen_
@macias_arturo
@rishirajgoel
@taniafabolous
@Lawreate7
@wenjieda
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Our PD Soros Fellows are flying in from all over the country to be with us in Queens, a place truly synonymous with immigrants and what our Fellowship stands for. 🇺🇸🌎🗽
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Congratulations to
#PDSoros
Fellows
@LinKingson
&
@parasmin
who both
#matched
into the Harvard Radiation Oncology Residency Program -
@HarvardRadOnc
!
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Remember, this fellowship and processes like it, can make excellence seem scarce but that’s false. We select 30 Fellows to represent and celebrate the diversity and ingenuity of New Americans in this country. All New Americans are deserving.
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#PDSoros
Fellow
@AhmedxMukhtar
got to meet
#PDSoros
Fellow & US Surgeon General
@vivek_murthy
who stopped by
@BrighamWomens
this morning! Ahmed is currently an internal medicine resident at the Brigham.
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Welcome to September! Our application is due at the end of October. Applicants, you've got this. Now, is a great time to ask recommenders and register them. Here is our guide to recommendations:
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Ahmed Ahmed was born in a refugee camp in Mombasa, Kenya after his family fled civil war violence in Mogadishu, Somalia. This week he graduated from
@harvardmed
. Congratulations to
#PDSoros
Fellow
@AhmedxMukhtar
! 🗽🇺🇸
✅graduation speaker
✅graduated with honors
✅MD 🎓
To think that a Somali refugee can graduate with honors from Harvard Medical School ❤️
And share the stage with a trailblazer like
@drsanjaygupta
I dared to dream, but even I couldn’t have dreamed this. 🎓
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Congrats to PD Soros Fellow Shamik Mascharak who matched for residency at UCSF and will be doing a preliminary year at
@BrighamWomens
.
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Applicants: A reminder that we will be in touch by e-mail by Friday, January 14th about whether you were selected as a finalist. We will use the e-mail address that is connected with your application. Thank you for applying and best of luck!
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Congratulations to PDSoros’s
@MaCamilaBustos
! Camila is ian immigrant from Colombia. She hopes to continue working on climate change litigation and policy in the future, focusing on the intersection of corporate accountability and human rights.
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We wrapped up our finalist interviews last week. We hope the entire application process gives applicants confidence in themselves. No matter what happens, we know our applicants are working on big things. Care for those dreams!
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Our very own
#PDSoros
Fellow
@DrBurkeHarris
on
@TEDRadioHour
: How Does Trauma Affect A Child's DNA?
#NewAmericans
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2018
#PDSoros
Fellow Anthony Veasna So passed away in 2020 at the age of 28. His debut novel came out in 2021 and today a collection of his essays, “Songs On Endless Repeat” was published by
@eccobooks
.
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Congrats to
#PDSoros
Fellow
@LinKingson
who is on the 2024
@Forbes
#30under30
list! Kingson, the cofounder of Modifi Biosciences, is developing innovative, selective ways that could potentially treat deadly, drug-resistant brain cancers.
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Congratulations to 2016
#PDSoros
Fellow
@Akbar_Hossai
who graduated from
@PennLaw
earlier this month! Akbar is an
#immigrant
from Bangladesh.
#immigrad
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🎉 We're thrilled to announce our 2024 Public Voices Fellows with
@TheOpEdProject
! This diverse group of 20
#PDSoros
alumni, all immigrants or children of immigrants, will amplify underrepresented voices and shape public discourse. Learn more:
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Happy
#NationalImmigrantsDay
! Supporting and celebrating immigrants is in our DNA and origin story.
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We are devastated by the passing of Anthony Veasna So, a 2018 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow. The child of Cambodian immigrants, Anthony was a beloved member of our community.
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Where are our applicants who have submitted and are feeling great?! ❤️✨
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Congratulations to Justin Lee, who is now working with
@mikhailshapiro
at
@Caltech
and is studying towards an MD at
@UCLA
, and
@ericsongg
, who is working with
@VirusesImmunity
, and studying towards an MD at
@YaleMed
.
#NewAmericans
#JHUAlumni
Justin Lee and Eric Song, who earned degrees from
@JohnsHopkins
in 2015, are among 30 individuals named
@PDSoros
Fellows for New Americans for their potential to make outstanding contributions to the United States. More here:
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We have THREE writers in the 2018
#PDSoros
cohort: Natalia Reyes, the child of Mexican
#immigrants
, of the
@IowaWritersWksp
,
@fakemaddoxjolie
, the child of former Cambodian refugees, of
@SyracuseU
, & Yessica Martinez, an immigrant from Colombia, of
@CornellGrad
!
#MFA
#Writers
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We're very excited to learn that PDSoros Fellow & Roivant Sciences CEO
@VivekGRamaswamy
is on Twitter! Even better, you can find his latest essay here:
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To honor our 25th anniversary, we’re thrilled to announce our cohort of
#PublicVoices
Fellows in partnership with
@TheOpEdProject
! 🎉✨
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We just listed our online information sessions in September and October! They are open to all applicants. Register for an upcoming webinar or find recordings of all of our summer webinars at the link below.
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One week until we announce the Class of 2022 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows and launch the application for the Class of 2023!
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🚨The 2024
#PDSoros
application is open!🚨
A $90,000 fellowship for full time grad & professional degrees for immigrants & children of immigrants in the US.
Examples of degrees supported: MA, MS, MBA, MD, JD, PhD, MPH, MPP…
Deadline: 10/26/23
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Meet 2021 PDSoros Fellow
@poojac99
! Pooja is currently an MD/MBA student at
@harvardmed
&
@HarvardHBS
. Her work focuses on improving healthcare delivery for underserved populations. Born in Fairfax, VA, she is the child of immigrants from Bangalore, India.
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#DACA
prevails!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BREAKING: The US Supreme Court has ruled the Trump administration violated federal law when it rescinded the DACA program
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We didn't know exactly what
#PDSoros
Fellow
@drfeifei
would do back in 1999 when she was selected, but it was clear she was thinking outside of the box, which is what we look for:
#CelebrateImmigrants
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Do you know an immigrant or child of immigrants pursuing a professional or graduate school degree? Whether they are applying or have already started, share our application for the 2024 Fellowship!
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PD Soros Fellow
@AhmedxMukhtar
matched to internal medicine at
@BrighamWomens
! Ahmed was born in a refugee camp in Mombasa, Kenya after his family fled civil war violence in lSomalia. He and his family immigrated to the US when Ahmed was 1. 🎉🗽🥼
#MatchDay
Feeling so incredibly grateful for this moment:
MATCHED at BRIGHAM AND WOMENS Internal Medicine !!! 🍀🍀🎉🎉
#Match2023
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What a photo ❤️. Welcome to the
#PDSoros
Fellowship,
@yehimicambron
!
I’ve been waiting SO patiently to share the thrilling news that I have been selected as one of the 30
@PDSoros
2023 Fellows AND that I will attend the
@saic_news
for their MFA in Printmedia program.
I’m overwhelmed with joy and gratitude in anticipation of what’s to come.
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Congratulations to PDSoros’s
@ChidiAkusobi
! MD, PhD! A Harvard-educated doctor twice over; a journey that started with his parents immigrating to the USA from Nigeria.
Introducing Dr. Chidiebere Akusobi. MD, PhD.
8 years later my journey at Harvard Medical School has come to an end. Right now I’m feeling blessed and incredibly grateful for the process and my progress. Thank you to my family, dear friends, and wonderful communities. We did it!
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Meet 2021 PDSoros Fellow
@JamesADiao
! James grew up amid Chinese restaurants, street signs, and supermarkets in the largest Chinatown of Houston, Texas. Living by the largest medical center in the world also piqued James’s interest in health care. Now he's a student at
@mit_hst
.
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Congratulations to our Trustee and 1998 Fellow
@vivek_murthy
!
I never dreamed I’d have the honor to once again serve as Surgeon General. In this moment of crisis, I’m grateful for the opportunity to help end this pandemic, be a voice for science, and support our nation on its path to rebuilding and healing.
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🚨The application for the 2024
#PDSoros
Fellowship is OPEN!
>Up to $90,000 towards full-time graduate or professional degrees in 2024-2025
>For immigrants & children of immigrants 30 or younger
>An incredible community of 775 New Americans
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We can't wait to announce our 2023 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows and launch our new application on April 25th! 🗽🎉🇺🇸
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A big shoutout to our 2021 PDSoros Fellows on Twitter:
@SergioDInfante
,
@a_almanakly
,
@poojac99
,
@MichaelNTrinh
,
@NNkinsi
,
@ScienceChow
,
@JamesADiao
,
@Elliotshuwei_Ji
,
@Steph_BloomingT
,
@nazykazy
,
@harold_ekeh
,
@voilavk
,
@sitaritapita
, &
@holly_ekas
!
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A huge congrats to PD Soros's
@HeidiVuletich
who will be an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the
@UofDenver
starting this fall! Heidi was born in Chihuahua, Mexico, and moved back and forth between Mexico & the US starting at the age of 5.
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The deadline for our 2021 Fellowship is October 29, 2020 at 2 pm ET. Finish strong, applicants! You've got this!
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Big news: PDSoros Fellow Julissa Reynoso Pantaleon will serve as Jill Biden’s chief of staff. Previously, she served as the US ambassador to Uruguay and deputy assistant Secretary of State.
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Congrats to all of the
@TrumanApp
finalists. Applicants, keep
#Sotomayor
's words in mind!
#TrumanReads
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Congratulations to our very own Shadi Ghaheri who is one of the United States’ newest citizens! Shadi is an Iranian immigrant and a theater directing MFA student at
@Yale
. The US is truly lucky to have her.
#citizen
#NewAmericans
#immigrant
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Meet 2021 PDSoros Fellow
@holly_ekas
! A
@UTAustin
graduate, Holly was adopted from rural China and raised in Texas--now she is studying chemical and biological engineering as a PhD student at
@NorthwesternU
with
@jewettlab_NU
!
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To honor our 25th anniversary, we’re launching a Public Voices Fellowship with
@TheOpEdProject
for 20 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows! More info ⬇️
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That’s a wrap! Another incredible Fall Conference in the books. Welcome to the family, Class of 2018! 🗽🗽🗽
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Paul Soros arrived to the United States 74 years ago today—December 14, 1948. Offered a space on the Hungarian Olympic ski team in the 1948 Olympics, Paul instead fled to Austria and then to the US, arriving with just his camera and $17 dollars.
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Meet 2023
#PDSoros
Fellow Anna Li! The child of Chinese immigrants, Anna is the founder of
@korionhealth
and an MD/PhD student at
@PittTweet
&
@CarnegieMellon
! She is our first Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh.
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