Creating a comprehensive health care delivery model that addresses the medical and social service needs of high-risk patients in impoverished communities. Jeffrey Brenner is a primary care physician ...

Reflecting on race, gender, and family in works that seamlessly encompass both the historical and the personal and subvert canonical forms. Terrance Hayes is a poet who reflects on race, gender, and ...

Marrying folkloric traditions with linguistic experimentation in works that explore the effects of intergenerational trauma, the refugee experience, and the complexities of identity and desire with ...

The Damage Done, a series from Capital & Main, chronicles the toll that climate change has taken across five U.S. states. Texas, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Colorado, and California all produce fossil ...

Bryan Stevenson, an attorney and a human rights activist, has devoted his career to fighting the death penalty. In Stevenson’s drive to expose biases under which capital punishment is imposed, he has ...

We invest catalytic capital to fill significant gaps left by the conventional marketplace and unlock additional capital from other sources for mission-driven intermediaries and enterprises. New impact ...

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In connection with MexiCali Biennial, the PARA/normal Borders Conversation Series of three public events brings together MacArthur Fellows whose work expands our understanding of borders across ...

Bright Sheng received a B.A. (1982) from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, an M.A. (1984) from Queens College, CUNY, and a Ph.D. (1993) from Columbia University. He is the Leonard Bernstein ...

The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, we work to ...

Blending fantastical elements with psychological realism to construct wildly imaginative settings and characters in tales of transformation and redemption. Karen Russell is a fiction writer whose ...

Addressing system-wide deficiencies in patient transitions from hospitals to homes and other sites of care and improving the health outcomes of millions of older adults suffering from chronic illness.