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Slideshow: The 2016 Fellows With Our Full Page Ad In The New York Times
We asked all of the 2016 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows to take a photo with the New York Times full-page ad that announced the new class of Fellows. We encouraged them to take photos in an imortant place or at their university, and we also told them to have fun with it. Here is what they came up with:





In her freshman year at Stanford, Jenna learned about the idea of investment for social good from a graduate class she was taking. This captured her imagination and she ran with it. The motto of the business school to “change lives, change organizations and to change the world” equally fits in with this ethos. She’s the founder and CEO of Phoenix Global Impact.








She plans to use algorithms to analyze and predict the functions of complex biological systems in her research, and later return to industry to create tools to make biological research more efficient.













As a child, Chidi dreamt of becoming a physician despite attending under-resourced inner city public schools where going to college was not the norm. He attributes the start of his academic journey to the Prep for Prep program, which prepared him to attend Horace Mann, a private school in The Bronx.
Now, he’s an MD/PhD student focusing on infectious disease at Harvard Medical Student.

To learn more about the 2016 Fellows, please visit the Meet The Fellows page.
Featured Fellows
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Shadi Ghaheri
MFA, Yale University
Shadi Ghaheri is an immigrant from Iran. Fellowship awarded in 2016 to support work towards an MFA in Theater at Yale University
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Eric Chung
Associate Chief Counsel, CHIPS and Science Act, United States Department of Commerce
Eric Chung is an immigrant born to parents from Vietnam Fellowship awarded in 2016 to support work towards a JD in Law at Yale University
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