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Women's Entrepreneurship Day: Paola Prestini's Journey to National Sawdust

Celebrating Women’s Entrepreneurship Day, we caught up with 1999 PD Soros Fellow Paola Prestini to learn more about her entrepreneurial journey as a co-founder of National Sawdust.

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Discovering Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows

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Alex Iftimie

Associate General Counsel, OpenAI

Alvaro Bedoya

Founding Executive Director, Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law

Gene Berdichevsky

CEO, Sila Nanotechnologies

Isra Bhatty

Assistant federal public defender, District of Columbia

Yehimi Cambrón Álvarez

Current MFA student at School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Babacar Cisse

Neurosurgeon, Weill Cornell Medical College

Alice Chen-Plotkin

Professor of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Tarun Chhabra

Special Assistant to the President and Senior director for Technology & National Security, National Security Council, White House

Nusrat Choudhury

United States District Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Insights from our Fellows

The Distance Traveled

March, 2025

In this issue:

Sanjena Sathian discusses what is not on her resume. We hear from 2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows on “What’s one piece of advice Fellows wish they’d known before starting their graduate program?”. Get to know Saúl Ramírez in “What I’m Working On”, get excellent recommendations for newsletters and hear from Daisy Soros on what sparked her interest in medicine.

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