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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Challenging conventional notions of authorship in fiction, essays, and inventive hybrids of the two that pose profound questions about the various ways we piece together stories and document the lives ...

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 ...

Reimagining public space to expose the complex ways that value, both cultural and economic, intersects with race in the built environment. Amanda Williams is an artist who uses ideas around color and ...