Meet the 2023 MacArthur Fellows: 20 inspiring individuals using creativity, curiosity, and care to build a more just and sustainable future. #MacFellow The Fellows are rewriting narratives, reshaping their fields, and redefining our connections across diverse backgrounds, circumstances, and geographies. The 2023 Fellows are: • E. Tendayi Achiume, legal scholar • Andrea Armstrong, incarceration law scholar • Rina Foygel Barber, statistician • Ian Bassin, lawyer and democracy advocate • Courtney Bryan, composer and pianist • Jason Buenrostro, cellular and molecular biologist • María Magdalena Campos-Pons, multidisciplinary artist • Raven Chacon, composer and artist • Diana Greene Foster, demographer and reproductive health researcher • Lucy Hutyra, environmental ecologist • Carolyn Lazard, artist • Ada Limón, poet • Lester Mackey, computer scientist and statistician • Patrick Makuakāne, kumu hula and cultural preservationist • Linsey Marr, environmental engineer • Manuel Muñoz, fiction writer • Imani Perry, interdisciplinary scholar and writer • Dyani White Hawk, multidisciplinary artist • A. Park Williams, hydroclimatologist • Amber Wutich, anthropologist Learn more about the Fellows and their work on our website! www.macfound.org/fellows
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The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation supports creative people, effective institutions, and influential networks building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. ⚖🌿☮🌎 MacArthur is placing a few big bets that truly significant progress is possible on some of the world’s most pressing social challenges, including over-incarceration, global climate change, nuclear risk, and significantly increasing financial capital for the social sector. In addition to the MacArthur Fellows Program, the Foundation continues its historic commitments to the role of journalism in a responsible and responsive democracy; the strength and vitality of our headquarters city, Chicago; and generating new knowledge about critical issues.
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Only about one fifth of Chicago residents pay subscriptions for or donate to local news. According to findings in In the report from Northwestern University’s Medill Local News Initiative, 51 percent of respondents also said no one should pay for local news. Learn more about Chicagoans' perceptions of local news ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eJxFZWZ7
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#TBT to our funder's briefing with grantee Radio Ambulante Studios! The gathering, which took place in the midst of the Hispanics in Philanthropy Conference, featured a performance by #MacFellow Daniel Alarcón, host of Radio Ambulante. Thank you to everyone who attended!
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Nearly 250 community-led summer and fall programs will help increase the peace in Chicago neighborhoods. The Partnership for Safe and Peaceful Communities (PSPC) provided $1.9 million in grants to support residents running programs in 24 neighborhoods that are hardest hit by gun violence. Learn more about the grant recipients 👇 https://lnkd.in/dzD8nK4H
Residents Strengthen Peaceful Communities through Summer Programs
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All identities intersect with disability, and ableism is a barrier to achieving diversity, equity, and inclusion. We recently spoke with Meier Galblum Haigh, Executive Director of Disability Culture Lab, about shifting the narrative on disability from fear and pity to solidarity and liberation. Listen to learn more about Disability Culture Lab’s work, and read about our progress on efforts to bring a disability lens to our grantmaking on our website! 🔗 https://lnkd.in/geY5-wnm ___ #DisabilityPride #DisabilityPrideMonth
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Converted from an industrial warehouse in West Garfield Park into a trove of tools and equipment, The Chicago Tool Library provides equitable access to a collection of 50,000 tools ranging from jigsaws to ice cream makers. Learn more about the library, which recently received the 2024 Creative Places Award at the Chicago Neighborhood Development Awards 👇 https://lnkd.in/gA9yQsfV
Building Community, One Tool at a Time
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"MacArthur will use all the legally available tools and processes to pursue our goals of racial justice." Our President, John Palfrey, reaffirms our commitment to racial justice after recent U.S. Court decisions challenging programs working toward racial equity. Read the full Perspective ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/gjnbVnuw
Affirming Our Continued Commitment to Racial Justice
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"If you change the framework through which people think, they'll think differently about the things that matter." In our latest Fellow Spotlight, we share excerpts from our interview with 2022 MacArthur Fellow Loretta J. Ross. Loretta is a reproductive justice and human rights activist reframing reproductive rights within a broader context of human rights. Check out the full Spotlight to hear her discuss how and why she advocates for bodily autonomy. #MacFellow 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eyr3pAXz
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All identities intersect with disability. In Disability Pride Month, our President, John Palfrey, shares our progress on efforts to bring a disability lens to our grantmaking, operations, and organizational culture. Read the full Perspective: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/geY5-wnm
Celebrating Disability and Working Toward Disability Justice
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Mahalia’s Mile, a stretch of 79th Street in Chicago that celebrates the legacy of the gospel singer and civil rights icon Mahalia Jackson, is vital to the revitalization of several neighborhoods on the South Side. Now designated as an official Cultural District, Mahalia’s Mile is being restored and enhanced, largely thanks to efforts by Greater Chatham Initiative (GCI). Learn more about their community development plans: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gre4pCnP
A Cultural Destination Revitalizing Mahalia's Legacy
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