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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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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

January, 2026

In this issue:

Jamaji C. Nwanaji-Enwerem discusses what is not on his resume. We hear from Fellows on “As you look ahead to 2026, what is one value, habit, or question you want to carry with you and why does it matter to you right now?”. Get to know Stephen Narain in “What I’m Working On”, and get excellent book, podcast, and essay recommendations.

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